Modern Herods

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.     Matthew 2:16-18

The wickedness of men today is no less than Herod’s was when he destroyed the innocents of Bethlehem at the time of Christ’s birth.

Rachel, as representative of all the mourning mothers of this dangerous world, is still weeping for her children. Islamic terrorists butcher 132 children in a school in Pakistan, wounding another 121. Islamic terrorists in Iraq and Syria routinely behead and crucify children who are Christians. Terrorists attacks on Christians, children (and adults) around the world continue to multiply, and mothers continue to weep.

Herod was killing toddlers for the sake of politics, though I would not put it past that wicked old man to explain it away for some other reason, even religion. Rachel’s tears meant nothing to his hard heart. The butchers of today’s children are doing the same thing. They claim their evil is part of their religious piety: honor God with the screams of children; paint icons with the blood of babies; build religion on the bones of their victims. Their monstrous acts are ultimately political, and give the lie to the claim that they are men of faith, or that their god is merciful. They are killers. They are murderers. They are monsters. What they do is unjustifiable, evil at its very worst. We know that many men and women of the human race around the world are evil and cruel, but that is no excuse for them, we must speak out against their sin for the true honor of the One True God of the Bible, and the protection of the innocents of all nations and faiths. The very reason Christ came to earth was to put an end to all death ultimately, and certainly to that caused deliberately by killers who give themselves over to to such sin.