The Culture of Death Part 2

In our society today, we are supposed to have ‘evolved’ into a kinder,

gentler sort of people. We are an educated people who are the penultimate in sophistication. We no longer make sacrifices to strange idols, do we? We are all about “the children”. And we are always trying to renew our commitment to our environment so that others will be able to enjoy what we have enjoyed for so long. We have become so advanced that we might even bring Heaven to exist right here on Earth. Right?

And yet the evidence is clear that this is not really the case. By all outward signs, we are as dysfunctional and deviant as any generation to have previously walked the face of this earth. King Ahab and Queen Jezebel would be proud. See 1 Kings 16 through 2 Kings 9.

Our lives are continually being disrupted by a deluge of information regarding our time here on this earth and how we are supposed to live. Someone else is always trying to tell us how we should live in order to please everyone else. And as Christians, most the information we get from the popular culture is not generally in our best interest to listen to and should be ignored.

In the last forty years, the drum has been beating for the call to the Abortion Clinics. Since 1973, when the Supreme Court struck down anti-abortion laws, over 1.2 billion children have never seen the light of day in the world which we find ourselves. The abortion industry, a billion dollar a year mega-industry, has had to reinvent itself with a new public relations campaign trotted out every few months.

In the past few weeks, with the Susan G Koman For the Cure Foundation deciding to de-fund Planned Parenthood, the abortion industry stopped even trying to play the nice guy and showed their true colors. Even though the amount of money Koman was giving was paltry in relation to the abortion industry budget, abortions were again reinvented as ‘women’s health’ and Koman was bullied into continuing to fund the abortion mills.

In this time, numerous new books about the effects of abortion on the real health issues women have after having had an abortion have come out. One in particular is “Forbidden Grief: The Unspoken Pain of Abortion” by Dr. Theresa Burke with David C. Reardon. It deals with the aftermath of the abortion, which is deeply traumatic and often ignored by the mainstream media.

Some of the post abortion risks, which are never mentioned, are:

* There is an 800% increase in breast cancer for women less than 18 years old who have an abortion after the eighth week of pregnancy.

* There is an 80% increase in breast cancer if the woman has an abortion before a live birth.

* The risk of breast cancer increases with the number of abortions.

* Women who have an abortion before a live birth and develop breast cancer have a greater possibility of a faster growing tumor with a poorer cure rate than women who have not had an abortion.

And these are just statistics in regard to breast cancer. It doesn’t take in consideration all the other types of cancer that rise significantly as soon as a woman has even one forced abortion to a pregnancy. And this is supposed to be about women's health? Really? Is that your final answer?

Our culture is one that is the modern day equivalent of Israel under Ahaz and Jezebel, who led their nation in Baal worship. We may not actually bow down to a graven image of a half-man, half bull, but all the signs of Baal worship are alive and well in our culture. Baal was one of the seven princes of Hell and is the primary pagan idol of the Phoenicians, often associated with the pagan goddess Ashtaroth. The name Baal means ‘lord’, such as Baal Zebub, ‘lord of the flies’; this is another name for Satan.

Three pillars of Baal worship are:

1. Child Sacrifices. Today this works itself out in the abortion industry with over a billion children having been sacrificed on the altar of convenience since 1973. There was a recent study in Europe by two bioethicists justifying the deliberate, premeditated murder of newborns during the first few days and weeks after a child is born. They would not call it murder, but a post-birth abortion. As one sign said, “Abortion does not make you Un-pregnant; it makes you the mother of a dead baby.”

2. Sexual Immorality. This is found in both homosexual and illicit heterosexual sexual promiscuity. From comprehensive sex education in schools (beginning as early as elementary school), to the militant ‘gay rights’ movement that doesn't want just equality but complete acceptance of their lifestyle as to be considered ‘normal’ and healthy. Radical feminism essentially states that men are no longer needed or wanted to make a safe environment for everyone to live in. One of their statements made the implication that all sex, even consensual sex, between a man and a woman in a marriage is still rape.

3. Pantheism. The worship and reverence of all things over the Creator. You can see this in the worship of Gaea, the Earth Goddess, or Mother Earth. It is also seen in the radical environmentalism movement that places Earth above the lives of human beings. As I said before, there are people that actually believe that the world cannot maintain its equilibrium with this many human beings on it. But facts are hard to argue with and the fact is that the entire population of the world could probably live in the land mass found within the state of Texas with every family having something like 2 ½ acres of land. And our advanced technology in agriculture has shown that the United States can actually grow enough food to feed all 6 billion inhabitants of this world.

Here’s a thought: some say that the television is an idol. If it’s not an idol, why are all the chairs in the TV room facing it?

God’s plan for mankind has always a place of peace and rest in Him. But man from the start, beginning with Adam and Eve’s disobedience and subsequent removal from the Garden, has been duped into thinking that the key to his ultimate fulfillment will be found in being like God. Satan thought then, ands still thinks today, of man as “useful idiots”. Man doesn’t even realize that he is being used.

Part of this ‘being like God’ is the “God complex” that man has developed. And with this comes the ‘right’ to make life or death decisions. Thus abortion, both pre-birth and post birth, and its brother of the death culture, euthanasia, makes absolute sense to modern man. If a person has cannot contribute to society in a meaningful way financially, as well as socially, it is in man’s self interest to remove them from that society. This is what we’ve come to.

And this is what now passes as being sophisticated. I don’t know. If that’s sophistication, well, all I can say is that Hell will be filled with sophisticated people. Remember, everything Adolph Hitler did when he was chancellor of Germany was ‘legal’. It still doesn’t make it right.