Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children in order to please or appease a god or supernatural beings in order to achieve a desired result. (emphasis mine)
In Old Testament times, it was a common, albeit heinous, practice for some pagans to offer the lives of their children to their idols in hopes of making their own lives easier. Pre-Columbian cultures, such as the Incas and Aztecs, are known to have sacrificed infants and children to their pagan idols, as well.
The definition of idolatry, according to Webster, is “the worship of idols or excessive devotion to, or reverence for some person or thing.”
To Jews and Christians, an idol is anything that replaces the one, true God in a person’s life.
In modern times, there is a tendency to look upon all previous cultures as primitive, unsophisticated, and infinitely inferior to ourselves. These oddly dressed people with their incomprehensible practices are thought of as almost a separate species. We cannot ever imagine living their lives, or falling victim to their ignorance and superstition. The very thought of such an abomination as sacrificing a child’s life in order to improve our own is unthinkable. Right?
If we are such superior creatures, why are millions of precious unborn children currently being sacrificed to such false idols as image, life-style, career, convenience, expedience, and politics? When we value any aspect of our own comfort and pleasure above the life of an innocent child, we are making of our wants an idol. Regardless of our amazing scientific or technological advances, we are no better than the idol worshipers of the long-ago past.
31 When you offer your gifts—the sacrifice of your children in the fire—you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. – Ezekiel 20:31 (NIV)
Power Walking with Jonna 
One thing that was true then, and pretty horrific if you think about it, is that children gathered sticks for the fires for the Israelite sacrifices to the demon-gods they worshipped. In the same way, if you talk to young adults today, many feel abortion is a right they have, fornication is a way of life, (you ever hear the term “body count” for the number of sex partners a person’s had), and those who oppose them are rotten, judgemental people.
I often think of two friends who had abortions in their BC days who are haunted by the thought, “If I had only known what they looked like, I would never have done it.” And I wonder what it seems to God, to hear the cries of the babies as they are being pulled apart in their mothers. It’s pretty raw and incredibly self destructive. God will not be silenced. He has given us over. Is there time for repentance? I don’t know.
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We can only pray and keep adding our voices to educate. Seeing the young people currently being manipulated shows the impact the voices of the media and entertainment have on our youth.
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