Posted on 04/10/2011 2:25:01 AM PDT by verdugo
The fundamentals of Baal worship remain alive and well today. The principal pillars of Baalism were child sacrifice, sexual immorality (both heterosexual and homosexual) and pantheism (reverence of creation over the Creator).
Modern liberalism deviates little from its ancient predecessor. While its macabre rituals have been sanitized with flowery and euphemistic terms of art, its core tenets and practices remain eerily similar.
The worship of fertility has been replaced with worship of reproductive freedom or choice. Child sacrifice via burnt offering has been updated, ever so slightly, to become child sacrifice by way of abortion.
The ritualistic promotion, practice and celebration of both heterosexual and homosexual immorality and promiscuity have been carefully whitewashed yet wholeheartedly embraced by the cults of radical feminism, militant gay rights and comprehensive sex education....... And, the pantheistic worship of mother earth has been substituted in name only for radical environmentalism.
The gods of liberalism have a new high priest in Barack Obama, and enjoy many devout followers in the Democratic-controlled Congress, liberal media and halls of academia.
Both Obamas social agenda and that of the 111th Congress are rife with unfettered pro-abortion, freedom-chilling, pro-homosexual and power-grabbing environmentalist objectives. The same kind of hope, action and change, I suppose, that was swallowed up by the Baalist Canaanites of old.
So, todays liberalism is really just a very old book with a shiny new cover. A philosophy rooted in ancient pagan traditions, of which there is naught to be proud.
Theres nothing new under the sun,
indeed.http://defendingcontending.com/2009/02/16/baal-worship-then-and-now/
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