The demon is no longer behind the mask . . .

 

What do the Chinese Communist Party and the Satanic Temple of America have in common?  I will discuss that below. The demon Baal/Molech has come out of the shadows, accepting the sacrifice of children to satisfy his unholy blood lust while leaving women scarred and broken shells of the beautiful creatures their holy God created. We all know that abortion robs children of the right to life. But what too few discuss is the horrific damage abortion does to women.  The abortion fight is far from over, and once again, Liberty Counsel is leading the charge.  We are filing briefs and working in multiple states around the nation, fighting to save women and children from the horrors of abortion. Read on. — Mat Fund the fight for LIFE and have Your donation DOUBLED by a Challenge Grant.

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Kaylee* was raised in a household that supported abortion. Neither she nor her parents considered themselves religious or pro-life. Kaylee found herself pregnant in high school. 

She keenly remembered lying in bed with her hand on her belly, feeling a deep bond and connection with her unborn child.

But Kaylee’s father did not want his daughter to become a teenage mother, so he pressured his daughter to have an abortion.
 

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Given her family’s pro-abortion stance, there was no overt reason for the young woman to feel guilt, shame, or anything other than the “freedom” that abortion promised, according to her psychiatrist.

Yet one year after the abortion, Kaylee wound up in the adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit. She had tried to end her own life.

When doctors asked why she tried to commit suicide, Kaylee responded flatly, “I killed my baby.”

Kaylee’s doctor said: “Her shame and regret over her abortion stemmed neither from religious values, nor from others accusing her of wrongdoing. 

It stemmed from her own experience of the maternal bond she had formed with the unborn life inside her during her unintended pregnancy.”

Too often, women in their childbearing years are pressured to kill their child in the womb by their boyfriend, husband, and/or parents looking to escape the physical, emotional, financial, or other responsibilities of caring for a baby.

And consider the case of one Lucien Greaves, co-founder of a group called The Satanic Temple. 

Greaves and The Satanic Temple recently sued Texas, arguing that the state’s ban on abortions prevented the satanists from participating in “ritual abortions.”
 

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Meanwhile, The Satanic Temple of New Mexico is now offering FREE chemical abortions. 

Lest one presume that the “Satan” aspect of these “temples” is a ruse, consider this ...

Social media pages for this “temple” show red and black robed anti-priests sporting blood-red pentagrams on their chests, performing “unbaptisms.” 

During the “unbaptism,” congregants must reject the Word of God, declare “Hail Satan,” and accept the “Satanic Rosary,” after which the anti-priest claims he has “freed” the person from “all God has placed above you.”

In a press release announcing its new child-killing services, The Satanic Temple of New Mexico declared it will fight any pro-life laws that seek to prevent the satanists from performing their “Religious Abortion Ritual.”

The Satanic Temple website boasts chapters in nearly every state. 

ALL claim a right to have “abortion rituals,” as per their dark arts.

Liberty Counsel has filed briefs in multiple states defending the unborn and protecting their mothers from the long-term mental and physical consequences of abortion because the facts are clear. 

Abortion doesn’t just terminate the life of a child. 

Abortion hurts women.

Studies show that post-abortive women suffer:

• 30-50% increase in breast cancer.

• 81% higher risk of mental health problems.

• 100% increase in suicidal behaviors.

• 200% increase in marijuana abuse.

• 37% higher rate of alcohol abuse.

• 34% higher rate of anxiety.

• Increased risk of uterine fibroids, womb scarring, hemorrhaging, and more.

Meanwhile, chemical abortion drugs such as RU-486, mifepristone, and misoprostol have been clinically shown to cause infertility, future miscarriage, overgrowth of uterine lining, scarred and blocked fallopian tubes, hypokalemia, vaginal hemorrhage, sepsis, blood clots, and death of the mother, just to name a few side effects.

Furthermore, studies by the Mayo Clinic show that chemical abortions cause an increased risk of premature birth and low birth weight in future pregnancies.

It is worth noting that these abortion drugs were the Chinese Communist Party’s drug of choice in enforcing its previous one-child policy.

Liberty Counsel has been fighting for life since our founding in 1989. 

Our powerful amicus brief was cited in the Supreme Court Dobbs ruling overturning Roe v. Wade. Now we are fighting for life state by state. 

We continue to defend the unborn — and their parents — with state court filings, legislative support, and litigation.

In the 13 states with current abortion bans, the data revealed they had “a cumulative total of 43,410 fewer people who had abortions,” and “a monthly average of 7,235 fewer abortions after the Dobbs decision as compared to pre-Dobbs.” That’s 43,410 women SAVED from the devastating long-term effects of abortion. But millions of other women remain at risk.
 

We need YOUR help to save women and children from abortion.

Liberty Counsel also continues to defend pro-life hero Sandra Merritt in both the 16-million-dollar Planned Parenthood civil suit against her, as well as the first-ever criminal case brought by California (under the initiation of Kamala Harris and Xavier Becerra when they were attorneys general for California).

We’ve petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review Sandra’s Planned Parenthood case. Please, join me in praying for justice — not only for this brave grandmother turned whistleblower, but also for all the children butchered for the abortion industry’s power and profits, and all the women left physically scarred and emotionally damaged by an abortionist’s knife or poisonous prescription.

With so many dark forces clamoring to kill children and maim women, WE NEED YOUR HELP.

Liberty Counsel never charges for our legal services. Instead, our clients and plaintiffs rely on faithful Liberty Counsel supporters like you to ensure justice is done and religious freedom remains free.

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Sources:

“#WeCount Report April to December 2022 Findings.” Society of Family Planning, April 11, 2023. Doi.org/10.46621/143729dhcsyz.

“Abortion Hurts Women.” BDFund, May 16, 2016. Bdfund.org/abortion-hurts-women/.

Anderson, Ryan T., and Alexandra Desanctis. “We Must Acknowledge That Abortion Harms Women.” National Review. Ethics & Public Policy Center, June 21, 2022. Eppc.org/publication/we-must-acknowledge-that-abortion-harms-women/.

“Chemical Abortion.” Students for Life of America, July 9, 2022. Studentsforlife.org/learn/chemical-abortion/.

“Doing Unbaptisms” Satanic Temple New Mexico, Facebook. January 13, 2023. Facebook.com/TSTNewMexico/videos/562483305749414.

“Elective Abortion: Does It Affect Subsequent Pregnancies?” Mayo Clinic, August 3, 2022. Mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/getting-pregnant/expert-answers/abortion/faq-20058551.

Kamman, Samantha. “Satanic Temple Lawsuit Claiming Texas Abortion Laws Violate Religious Freedom Dismissed.” The Christian Post, July 24, 2023. Christianpost.com/news/satanic-temple-lawsuit-against-abortion-ban-dismissed.html.

“Long-Term Physical & Psychological Health Consequences of Induced Abortion: Review of the Evidence,” by J.M. Thorp, Jr., MD, K.E. Hartmann, MD, PhD, and E.M. Shadigian, MD. OB/GYN Survey 58(1): 67-79, 2003.

“Mifepristone Side Effects: Common, Severe, Long Term.” Drugs.com, May 3, 2023. Drugs.com/sfx/mifepristone-side-effects.html.

Shen, Qi, Li Shu, Hui Luo, Xiaoli Hu, and Xueqiong Zhu. 2017. “The Use of Mifepristone in Abortion Associated with an Increased Risk of Uterine Leiomyomas.” Medicine 96 (17): e6680. Doi.org/10.1097/md.0000000000006680.

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL – August 3, 2023 You Have a Comforter By David Wilkerson

I am learning something wonderful about the Holy Spirit. He has a unique characteristic; he does not like to talk about himself. He does not make himself the primary object of our attention. I have tried earnestly to study the Holy Spirit, digging into entire volumes about him written by respected authors, books about his nature and personality. Some of these books are very deep and often hard to understand. They are all very interesting but not always enlightening. The fact is that they can’t instruct us or bring us closer to God because we can only understand what the Spirit himself reveals, and he won’t talk about himself! I have tried digging into the meaning of the Holy Spirit’s names — Comforter, Paraclete, Advocate, Intercessor — looking for some insight as to who he is. I finally realized that we Christians don’t have to understand the person of the Holy Spirit because he doesn’t want to tell us hidden things about himself. All we need to know is that he is one of the Godhead, eternal, the very Spirit of Christ, sent down to this earth to live in us who believe. Even more important, his eyes are always on Christ! The Holy Spirit doesn’t want us to know about him so much as to know about his mission, and that mission is to bring us to Jesus and to keep us in purity and holiness. He is always at work, making Christ known in our hearts; and he delights in our seeking knowledge about why he has come. Jesus said, “When he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak; and he will tell you things to come. He will glorify me, for he will take of what is mine and declare it to you. …These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world” (John 16:13-14, 33, NKJV).

 

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Voddie Baucham on how faith can survive post-Christian culture that 'detests' biblical Christianity (pt. 2)

By Leah MarieAnn Klett, Assistant Editor 

When Voddie Baucham first penned The Ever-Loving Truth: Can Faith Survive in a Post-Christian Culture? in 2004, he was concerned that the dominant ideology of the day, secular humanism, was making biblical truth all but obsolete. 

Fast forward nearly two decades, and, according to the 54-year-old dean of theology at African Christian University in Zambia, truth is still under attack in today's society, much like it was back then, with a shift from secular humanism to a radical Marxist approach. 

“But really, at the end of the day, it's the same thing,” he told The Christian Post. “It's the idea that either there is no truth or that truth is a social construct, knowledge is even a social construct. And in both instances, Christianity, and really anyone else who proclaims that there is absolute truth, becomes the enemy of the ideology of the day.”

In September, Baucham is releasing a revised and updated version of his bestselling book, which he hopes serves as a valuable resource for Christians seeking to navigate increasingly turbulent cultural waters. 

In his book, Baucham draws parallels between the early Church's experiences in pre-Christian Rome and the present-day challenges, highlighting the pressure to conform to prevailing ideologies while avoiding interfering with cultural norms. 

“In the early Church, there was this pressure to conform to the religious ideologies of the day,” he said. “There was this pressure that said, ‘It’s OK for you to practice your Christianity; your Christianity just can't be allowed to interfere with our Roman religion.’ Today, we see the same thing. People are saying, ‘Listen, I don't have a problem with Christianity, per se, as long as that Christianity stays within the four walls of the church and does not try to impose itself on the broader culture, and as long as that Christianity does not prevent you from bowing to the idols of the day.’”

“The minute your Christianity causes you to oppose same-sex marriage or causes you to oppose abortion, or causes you to oppose so-called ‘gender-affirming care,’ and so on and so forth, those things that really are the idols of the culture today — when your Christianity steps into that realm, that's the minute that you experience the various forms of opposition and potentially persecution.”

According to Baucham, in post-Christian America, only certain versions of Christianity are “acceptable," the “watered down social gospel, the food bank, and liberal political activist kind of version of Christianity.”

“These things have always been OK because they remove the offense of the Gospel,” he said. “Once the offense of the Gospel is there, then all of a sudden, we're outside the camp.”

The early Church, the pastor said, knew how and when to draw lines because they were outsiders in the larger cultural context. In contrast, Christians in the Christian West have been the dominant ideology for a long time, shaping the culture and assuming that everyone else shares their perspectives.

With the cultural shift away from Christianity, Baucham contended, Christians are now unsure how to respond and navigate in a world where their assumptions are no longer dominant but perceived as detestable.

“We don't know how to respond. We really don't know what to do. We don't know how to play the game when it's not in our stadium,” he said. “We have no idea how to approach people and culture when our assumptions are not only no longer dominant but are perceived as vile and completely detestable by our culture. We have a tendency to recoil and be caught off guard.”

Much of the problem stems from within the modern church itself, said Baucham, who previously led Grace Family Baptist Church in Texas. He contends that many pastors in the West have contributed to the challenge by shifting away from Gospel-centered foundations toward gathering people based on non-essential commonalities.

"We begin to build churches — and really, I use that term loosely because, in many instances, they aren't churches — and gather people based on commonalities that were not Gospel-centered. We gathered people because we liked the same kind of music or we were in the same social class. We had those things as our foundation instead of having the Gospel as our foundation.”

Perhaps the biggest culprits in removing biblical truth from society, according to Baucham, are universities and places of higher education. In his book, he highlights the need for Christians to be aware of the biases present in academia, an environment he said not only promotes godless agendas but “despises” the Gospel.

“Not only does the Academy despise the Gospel, but the Academy also despises the biblical worldview more broadly,” he told CP. “For example, if you're a person who believes that there is a God who created the world — forget Young Earth, just a person who believes that God created the world — you don't deserve to breathe, let alone call yourself an academic. The Academy not only despises the Gospel but a Christian worldview, Christian cosmology, Christian morality.”

The Academy is the “church of the modern age,” he said, adding: “The Academy is where we find the priests of the modern age. The Academy is where you go in order to experience the sacraments of the modern age. It is the church of the secular humanist, postmodern, and Neo Marxist worldview. Biblical Christianity stands in stark opposition to that particular religion and those gatekeepers.”

In light of this reality, believers must draw a line in the sand, like the early apostles, Baucham said, and this begins with Christians in the West recognizing that their historical dominance and cultural influence have been remarkable but not the norm throughout Christian history. 

“We have to recognize we've had a great run. And we need to praise God for that and pray that that great run is not just completely over, but we need to recognize it for what it is,” he said. 

“We need to recognize that this opposition does not mean that we've done something wrong,” he said. “One of the misconceptions is that we've experienced this great run because we've been somehow unusual and special and remarkable. And we're not; we're no more godly, we're no more special, we're no more remarkable than people who live in places where they're persecuted, and where the Gospel has never really taken root or taken hold. We’re just providentially placed in this particular setting. We have to remove this notion that somehow we've been great and we've deserved the favor that we've experienced.”

Baucham urges Christians to prepare for the opposition they will face in a post-Christian culture by knowing what they believe and being ready to defend their faith. He encourages believers to be prepared to face the consequences of standing firm in their beliefs, even if it means unpleasant repercussions.

The pastor, whose 2011 book Family Driven Faith tackles how to raise sons and daughters to walk with God, highlighted the role of parents in spiritual formation. He emphasized the responsibility of raising children to know and fear the Lord, especially in today's ever-shifting cultural landscape. 

“We need to get our children out of the government schools,” he said, citing Luke 6:40. “We’ve got a lot of people going to war with the school system today because of the things that we see that are outrageous. But there have been outrageous things that we haven't seen for decades, and this is just the tip of the iceberg. We need to not only be serious about discipling our children in terms of teaching them what thus saith the Lord, but also be serious about discipling our children in terms of giving them a full Christian education, bathed in a Christian worldview so that they can be prepared to face this culture as opposed to baptized in it.”

Biblical truth never changes regardless of the shifts in culture, Baucham stressed. He expressed hope that his book will awaken and challenge faithful Christians and encourage them to stay firm in their faith despite challenges. 

“My hope is always that people will see, hear and encounter the person and work of Jesus Christ, and that they will see the powerful implications and applications of the truth of the Gospel in what I write,” he said. 

“Ultimately, I hope it will wake up some people who need to be awakened in this moment, that it will encourage some people who need to be encouraged and to be reminded that there are hundreds of prophets who haven't bent the knee to Baal, and that it will bolster and equip those who are willing to stand in the midst of this opposition.”

The Ever-Loving Truth: Can Faith Survive in a Post-Christian Culture? will be released on Sept. 16.

https://www.christianpost.com/books/voddie-baucham-on-how-faith-can-survive-post-christian-culture.html

Leah M. Klett is a reporter for The Christian Post. She can be reached at: leah.klett@christianpost.com