Euteneuer (above, in Rome with Pope Benedict XVI) prefaces his excoriation of abortion-as-demon-worship by advising the faithful to protect themselves from demonic influence by praying even as they read it.

In what sense is abortion demonic?

The spiritual dimension of this grisly "business" is its systematizing of ritual blood sacrifice to the god of child murder, Moloch, who we know of from the severe condemnations of him in the Old Testament.. ... This demon of murder appears in many forms and cultures through history (Phoenician, Carthaginian, Canaanite, Celt, Indian, Aztec and others) but is always the same bloodthirsty beast that demands the killing of children as his form of worship. This demon is not content with a single act of murder here and there. His insatiable appetite for the death of innocents seeks public endorsement to justify his gruesome deeds, and he needs a systematic expression of it to increase his worship.
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The sacrificial victim in this demonic religion is not a brute animal as was offered to the Old Testament God of Israel in a legitimate system of religious sacrifices. In abortion, the victim is an innocent human being who is made in the "image and likeness of God" and who can never defend herself. This combination of innocence, parental participation and ritualized obliteration of the visage of God in human form is the devil's way of blaspheming the Father with 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 a blasphemous insult to God. If the abortion business is not truly demonic, nothing is.

Euteneuer -- whose HLI also maintains that "homosexuals reproduce sexually by molesting children" -- further exhorts his readers to "cover every abortionist, abortion mill and client of the abortion industry with Christ's Blood in order to conquer the blood sacrifice of the devil with the greatest force of good known to man."

Euteneuer's accusations of Moloch-worship have been picked up and republished by such like-minded sites as Catholic Exchange, National Pro-Life Radio, LifeSite, Catholic Citizens, Pro-Life Blogs and a couple of hundred others. Father Tom is also a hit at Free Republic, where his sermon fell on fertile ground.

This priest is simply connecting the dots. The worship of Baal and Moloch is well documented in the Bible and was an abomination before God then and still is now.

You can update it, hire ACLU lawyers, pass Roe vs. Wade into law, start an organization--"Planned Abortionhood"--to collect the $$, put it on a lot of websites and call it "Choice." It is still the same--worship of the demon of infant death. It will be an abomination whether Hollywood actresses and feminists approve of it or not.

God will not be mocked.

I've done a Bible study on God's reaction to child sacrifice when King Manasseh of Israel did not believe God was real, so he sacrificed his firstborn to molech by burning him alive. God said He was not going to forgive the NATION of Israel for practicing this and had them invaded by the Babylonians. America is being invaded. Europe is being invaded. Africa is a mess. Today's Babylonians are growing all over the world. Do you think its a coincidence that terrorism and abortion became prevalent together? Wacko? Only to those who don't want to see.

The Moloch and Baal worship...the same spirit regardless of country boundaries. This spiritual battle has been going on since Bible times. Satan cannot create anything new, he can only try to give it a face lift and a new look. (or different verbage (sic) on the lie and a different gimmick, re-'stem cell research, the humanitarian thing to do, finding cures for everyone'.)

Sobering post, and deadly serious. There's a lot to think about here. What must God be thinking of our country?

I really like this priest. I would like to know what he means by applying over time the blood of Christ to the clinics. He's not speaking literally, is he? I hope not, but I can't be sure if he's talking about the power of prayer or actually taking the Blessed Sacrament and actually applying it physically to the building.

As Beket wrote in Exorcize this! (I'm just a demon walking the earth.) -- his own Daily Kos diary on Euteneuer's call to action -- the reaction was immediate, and the swift agreement with Euteneuer's assessment alarming.

When dealing with the likes of Beket, you really aren't even speaking with people. These guys have been completely taken over by demons. Not influenced (like many people who are pro-choice), but actually taken over...so when you are arguing with them, you are arguing with a preternatural being. Picture Screwtape. You're just a game to this guy. Just a demon passing time...and you are his little toy...they won't respond to logic, or conscience...what they need is an exorcism!

Religious rhetoric much less inflammatory than Euteneuer's has sufficed to spur mentally unstable anti-abortionists to make blood sacrifices of their own.  

On December 30, 1994, John C. Salvi, a 22-year-old deeply religious aspiring hairdresser from New Hampshire stepped into a Planned Parenthood clinic in Brookline, MA, shortly before 10 a.m., pulled a .22 caliber rifle from a black duffle bag, and began shooting. He killed receptionist Shannon Lowney, 25, instantly, and wounded three other people.

After someone from the clinic called 911 the police dispatched officers to other reproductive health clinics in the area. One car headed to Preterm Health Services, a clinic about a mile west of the Planned Parenthood clinic. But it was too late. At Preterm, Salvi had shot three more people, fatally injuring one, receptionist Leann Nichols, 38. The New York Times reported that Nichols had said "no, no, no" when Salvi pointed his gun at her, but he shot her with 10 rounds from head to waist, saying, "That's what you get. You should pray the rosary."

On the first day I returned to work after the Massachusetts murders, our ever-present picketer (who drove to the clinic every day in a car registered to the local diocese) called out to me, "1994 was a year full of blood. What will 1995 be like for you?"

In 1998, also motivated by his religious convictions, "Atomic Dog" Jim Kopp murdered Dr. Barnett Slepian.

And there were also Michael Griffin, Shelley Shannon, Paul Hill and Eric Rudolph -- all of whom also committed their own crimes of violence against providers of abortion care after 1992 and before 2000.

With anti-abortion forces politically frustrated, the Clinton years were dangerous years for people who do what I do. It is no small coincidence that, with a "pro-life" administration firmly in charge, the most extreme anti-abortion violence has abated over the last decade. Now, with the religious right's political influence under threat, its violence-inciting rhetoric is ratcheting back up into the red zone once again.

Pro-choice advocates who might be feeling secretly relieved that they aren't being targeted by Euteneuer's inflammatory rhetoric should think again. Even if they don't qualify to occupy the higher orders of the cult of Moloch, Euteneuer preaches that they're just as guilty as the priesthood of that "demonic religion."

The modern abortion industry offers ritual blood sacrifice to the ancient abortion demon. It is in every way a demonic religion.

• It has its sacred dogma ("choice"),
  
• its ruling hierarchy (Planned Parenthood),
  
• its theologians (feminist ideologues),
  
• its sacrificing priesthood (abortionists),
  
• its temples (abortion mills),
  
• altars (surgical tables),
  
• ritual victims (primarily babies and secondarily women),
  
• acolytes and sacristans (clinic workers and death-escorts),
  
• congregations (all supporters of abortion) and
  
• its own unifying principle of sacramental "grace" (money).

The President of Human Life International isn't some run-of-the-mill crazy. Like Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life, Euteneuer is an activist priest with some highly influential connections -- and when he feeds his own Moloch, thousands upon thousands listen.

So y'all be careful out there, and I'll see you in church.

Images
"Moloch" by John Singer Sargent: The Sargent Murals at the Boston Public Library
Fr. Tom Euteneuer with Pope Benedict XVI: Human Life International
Lee Ann Nichols: CNN
"Moloch consuming a living victim": Stanford Journal of Archaeology