Thomas J. Euteneuer is de voorzitter van de katholieke prolife-organisatie Human Life International. In zijn laatste column, geschreven voor de New Oxford Review, vergelijkt priester Euteneuer de abortusindustrie – “Abortion is fundamentally a business — a business based on a perverse concept of human rights” – met het offeren van kinderen zoals dat in gruwelverhalen in alle wereldreligies wordt verwoord.
In het Oude Testament is het de Moloch, maar ook de Foeniciërs, de Kanaänieten, de Kelten, de Indianen, de Azteken en andere volken, kenden het ritueel vermoorden van kinderen. De oudtestamentische profeten veroordeelden fel het offeren van kinderen. Zo waarschuwt Jeremia het volk en noemt de offerplek ‘het Dal van de Slachting” (Jer. 19,5-6).
Euteneuer noemt de abortusindustrie het moderne ‘Dal van Slachting’. Terecht spreekt de priester van een demonische religie. “Yes, a religion: Abortion has an infallible dogma (“choice”), a ruling hierarchy (Planned Parenthood), theologians (feminist ideologues), a sacrificing priesthood (abortionists), temples (abortion mills), altars of sacrifice (surgical tables), ritual victims (babies and also women), acolytes and sacristans (clinic workers and technicians), guardian angels (police and death-scorts), congregations (leftist foundations and private supporters), and its own version of “grace” that makes everything work (money).”
Euteneuer komt met een aantal schokkende voorbeelden, waarin feministen, abortusartsen en ‘free choice’ supporters abortus vergelijken met een sacrament, gedaan uit liefde(!).
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The Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer is president of Virginia-based Human Life International, which has affiliates and partners in 87 countries around the world. A trained exorcist, Fr. Euteneuer has been authorized to perform the ancient rite in several dioceses in the U.S.
Those who are uncomfortable with the thought and talk of demons have a decision to make: Remain in the dark and ignore a basic teaching of the Church regarding spiritual warfare or open your eyes and join the rest of us in the fight against the demons who are working evil in our midst. One such wicked work is the dirty business of abortion. No human activity glorifies Satan and his minions more than abortion.
Abortion is fundamentally a business — a business based on a perverse concept of human rights. Abortion is a commodity cleverly marketed to women under the ideological rubric of “free choice” that draws in huge profits from the deaths of innocents. The abortion industry is a profit-driven, raw killing machine. The enormous amount of cash it generates is the “lifeblood” that perpetuates its existence.
The spiritual dimension of this grisly business, however, is its systematizing of ritual blood sacrifice to the god of child murder who, in the Old Testament, is called Moloch. This demon of child sacrifice appears in many forms and cultures throughout history — Phoenician, Carthaginian, Canaanite, Celtic, Indian, Aztec, and others — but it is always the same bloodthirsty beast that demands the killing of children as a form of worship. This demon seeks public endorsement and ever new expressions of killing to increase its “worship.” In some of the ancient forms of these evil practices, huge drums were beaten beside the places of sacrifice as the rituals proceeded. These drums were used to drown out the screams of the victims who were being sacrificed on the altars.
The practice of child sacrifice was universally condemned as an abomination by the prophets of the Old Testament. Ezekiel said to the people of Israel: “The sons and daughters you had borne me you took and offered as sacrifices to be devoured by them [false gods]! Was it not enough for you to play the harlot? You slaughtered and immolated my children to them, making them pass through fire” (16:20-21). Jeremiah was equally unequivocal in his opposition to this evil: “They have built high places to Baal [Moloch] to immolate their sons in fire as holocausts…such a thing as I never commanded nor spoke of…. Therefore, the days will come when this place will no longer be called Topheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but rather, the valley of Slaughter” (19:5-6). It is interesting to note that the Hebrew word for “valley” is ge, and so the name “Valley of Hinnom” is ge-hinnom, whence we derive the word “Gehenna.”
The abortion industry is our modern-day Valley of Slaughter, where abortionists offer ritual blood sacrifice to that ancient demon of child murder. Their work is in every way the key ritual of a demonic religion. Yes, a religion: Abortion has an infallible dogma (“choice”), a ruling hierarchy (Planned Parenthood), theologians (feminist ideologues), a sacrificing priesthood (abortionists), temples (abortion mills), altars of sacrifice (surgical tables), ritual victims (babies and also women), acolytes and sacristans (clinic workers and technicians), guardian angels (police and death-scorts), congregations (leftist foundations and private supporters), and its own version of “grace” that makes everything work (money).
In modern abortion, the “drums” of the ancient rituals are now the buckets and containers used to carry out the obliterated dead bodies of the babies, and the sound of the abortionist’s suction machine drowns out the “silent scream” of the innocent one who is sacrificed. It ends with the burning of the victims as a holocaust to the demon. In ancient times, babies were “passed through fire”; nowadays, the babies sacrificed to Moloch are simply sent out and burned as “medical waste.”
The sacrificial victim in this demonic religion is not a brute animal, as was offered by the priests of Israel. In abortion, the victim is an innocent human being made in the “image and likeness of God” and entirely unable to defend himself against the abortionist’s aggression. Furthermore, the baby is sacrificed by his own mother and father, who pay an executioner to perform the ritual. This combination of innocence, parental renunciation, and ritualized annihilation of the image of God in human form is the Devil’s way of blaspheming God. In this project he can count on the misguided participation of God’s own children. The systematic destruction of the human body, which St. Paul calls “the temple of the Holy Spirit,” is also a sacrilege. In short, abortion is a perfect demonic system that offers a perfect form of worship to the Devil. If the abortion business is not truly diabolical, nothing is.
This is not just guesswork on my part. Feminists and abortionists themselves have gone on record saying the same things in their own hate-filled and misguided jargon. Good examples of demonic ideology can be found on the websites and in interviews with and speeches of abortion providers and supporters. For example, extreme feminist Ginette Paris described abortion “as a sacrifice to Artemis” in her 1992 book The Sacrament of Abortion. She also said, “The same quality allows us to visualize a world of increasing respect for children, a world in which one can occasionally resort to abortion when it is necessary to sacrifice the fetus to a higher cause, namely, the love of children and the refusal to see them suffer.” No mentality is more perverse than the one that calls abortion a “sacrament” and refers to abortion as an act of love for children!
In similarly twisted fashion, one Pennsylvania abortion mill described the “spiritual journey” of abortion on its website in the following way (the website has since been scrubbed of all such references):
Ending a pregnancy is not just a physical act but also a spiritual process. Meet with our spirit healer and guide a week in advance to plan the ritual journey that will meet your spiritual needs. Native American (Taino clan tradition), Eastern philosophy, nature-inspired (pagan), or custom-designed ceremonies are available to you and to the support people who will accompany you on your spirit quest. Or, design your own rituals with the help of our experienced guides. Check in to our mountain retreat Friday night for a ritual cleansing and spiritual preparation. Have the surgical procedure when you are ready for a separation of paths with the spirit child within you. Miscarriage with medicines and herbs is also available early in pregnancy. A follow-up ritual a year and a day later is included in this package. (Cost: $5000.)
Former abortionist Patricia Baird-Windle of Florida had this to say about her “spiritual” work:
Abortion is a major blessing, and a sacrament in the hands of women…. At the very crucible of the sacrament of abortion work is that some women have an abortion out of love for the baby, [some] out of love for the children they already have and are having a hard time feeding.
Among the many ghastly “clergy” supporters of abortion is Episcopal priestess Katherine Ragsdale, the first female president of Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ragsdale told a gathering of abortion providers:
I want to thank all of you who protect this blessing [of abortion] — who do this work every day: the health care providers, doctors, nurses, technicians, receptionists, who put your lives on the line to care for others (you are heroes — in my eyes, you are saints); the escorts and the activists; the lobbyists and the clinic defenders; all of you. You’re engaged in holy work.
Those of us who have been engaged in the truly holy work of carrying the Gospel of Life to our society know that we are not fighting against flesh and blood in the pro-life vs. pro-abortion arena. We are contending against “principalities and powers, the rulers of this world of darkness,” as St. Paul says in Ephesians 6:12, and we must “put on the armor of God” if we are to win this battle.
I greatly encourage all men and women of good will to carry out this spiritual warfare in our society and in the world in order to vanquish the demon of child sacrifice, who has been given such free reign by the abortion business. More than anything, I encourage the leaders of our Church to take up the arms of Christ and form the Church into a fighting force once again to take on the spiritual evil around us.
