Hygienic Violence

The wicked are violent. The righteous are strong, but they use their might for sake of health, life, and peace. The wicked use whatever power they can get to hurt, to destroy, to kill.

In our country’s history, we can look at some decades when flagrant wickedness was on the fringe, and wickedness in the center was more disguised. That sort of wickedness worked scientific idolatry into school curriculum and stealing and oppression into tax laws. We’ve always had the wicked among us, but there was a time when some were better at hiding it. There is less hiding now.

We have returned to a day when the lines are more defined. The wicked aren’t sneaking around. In the Old Testament the Israelites dealt with peoples who worshiped violent gods. Molech demanded child sacrifices. Modern day abortionists are serving the same demon. For them, violence is right, it is a personal right to fight for.

It’s possible that Hadassah’s Persian name, Esther, is derived from the goddess Ishtar (some of you may recognize her from The Epic of Gilgamesh). Ishtar’s cult was known for a few things, including self-mutilation. Her followers would sometimes “bleed for the goddess,” not just against enemies in war, but against their own bodies.

Just as abortion has analogy to Molech, so today’s transgender sacrifices have analogy to Ishtar. We have social media influencers, Instagram priests and priestesses, teaching their doctrines of identity and pain. We have “medical” doctors in white coats with sharp knives doing irreparable damage. At least their violence is hygienic.

It is propaganda against the triune God who made male and female to bear His image. These online groups promise that you will not surely die. But our screens are calling down the gods, and they mean to destroy.