Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex

This city has aroused my anger and wrath, from the day it was built to this day, so that I will remove it from my sight because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah which they did to provoke me to anger–their kings and their princes, their priests and their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.  They have turned to me their back and not their face; and though I have taught them persistently they have not listened to receive instruction. They set up their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.  They built the high places of Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin (Jeremiah 32:31-35)

Carolina had a very good post today over at the Crescat. She echoes the assessment of Cardinal George that the electorate went, by and large, to BO because of their economic fears.  She insightfully points out the farce that was such a motivation and what it reveals about us.

For my part, this brought to mind Jeremiah’s prophecy about Judah who had gone over to the gods of the nations.  As the phrase has come to be used, they “bowed to Molech.”  Now we, often times, in reading how Israel and Judah “played the harlot” after the gods of the pagan nations, are left perplexed as to why they might do such a thing.  We often dismiss them as not all that wise.  We ought not make this chauvinistic mistake…”it’s the economy stupid.”  The early Church Fathers, following the Rabbis, explained that the gods the nations worshiped in reality were demons who did in fact provide material benefits for those who would fall before them.  Israel did not play the harlot for the charge they got out of rebelling against YHWH; they voted with their wallets, if you will.

Carolina’s post reminded me also of Cardinal Stafford’s comment about those who feel betrayed by prolife Catholics who voted for BO.  This is especially true of those who rationalized and allowed themselves to be swayed by the propaganda that BO is the the economic savior of the poor and middle-class.  They have played the harlot.  They have, most astoundingly, bowed to Molech.

Now Molech was a particular kind of god worshiped by Israel’s neighbor and enemy, the Ammonites.  As Jeremiah indicates, this god demanded the sacrifice of the worshipers’ children by fire in order to receive his promised material benefits.  Now everybody worships something and many of us seem to have done as Israel often did.  They, like we, wanted to have it both ways.  They would still worship YWHW but they found it hard to pass up the material benefits sacrificing to the other gods could bring them.

It seems the arguments from those who profess to be prolife Catholics but still voted for BO fit this picture quite well.  They point out all the good that he has promised to do…and oh, this little peccadillo like signing the FOCA bill, well the wealth he will redistribute will take care of this as well.  It’s all about the gold don’t ya know.  If enough people have it then they won’t be compelled to kill their unborn children (though the Guttmacher Institute shows that less and 1/5 of those who abort say that economics were a consideration).

We have elected a material messiah who promises to give us every material thing we could ever want.  However, there is just this one catch.  We must offer our collective sons and daughters to Molech in exchange.  The messiah cannot do his miracles of wealth redistribution unless we make this sacrificial offering to his god…and we have done it.

I wonder if we have gone so far now as to provoke God’s wrath and anger such that he will remove our city from His sight because of the evil we have done?  I do not think that BO would have been elected except for the complicity of people who should have known better.  Now, as even many otherwise sober leaders are warning, we indeed may have hell to pay.