Is abortion the modern human sacrifice?

I.

The soul is not created by the parents. It is created by God.

This is the part the modern medical framing obscures. At the moment of conception, two human beings contribute biological material — but biological material does not produce a soul. The soul, in Catholic teaching, is not generated by reproduction. It is created out of nothing by God, individually, in that specific moment, for that specific person.

The Catechism is precise: "The Church teaches that every spiritual soul is created immediately by God — it is not 'produced' by the parents — and also that it is immortal." The parents provide the mechanism. God supplies the person.

This changes everything about what an abortion is. It is not the removal of tissue. It is not the termination of a process. It is the destruction of a specific human person, willed into existence by God Himself, who acted directly to bring that soul into being. The parents did not make that soul. The doctor did not make that soul. The state did not make that soul. God did. And every abortion is the killing of a person whom God personally and deliberately created.

II.

The Church has condemned abortion in writing since the first century.

The earliest Christian moral document outside the New Testament is the Didache — "the teaching of the twelve apostles" — written sometime between 70 and 110 AD, within living memory of the apostles themselves. It does not list abortion as a sin discovered later in Church history. It commands the opposite in stark terms in chapter two:

"You shall not procure abortion, nor destroy a newborn child." — The Didache, c. 70–110 AD

That sentence is sixteen centuries older than any Christian denomination that supports abortion. It is older than the New Testament's canonical compilation, older than the Nicene Creed, older than any of the books most modern people think of as "Christian classics." The Christian Church has been against abortion since the Christian Church has existed.

And it didn't soften. Tertullian, c. 197 AD, was even sharper: "In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the fetus in the womb. To hinder a birth is merely a speedier man-killing." Athenagoras, Clement of Alexandria, Hippolytus, Basil the Great, Augustine, Aquinas — there is no Christian century in which mainstream Christianity has not condemned this practice in writing.

III.

Abortion is an excommunicable offense — and the reason is not what most people assume.

The Catholic Church teaches that procuring an abortion, or helping another person procure one, incurs automatic excommunication. Most people assume this is simply because of the gravity of taking innocent life. But Fr. Chad Ripperger, an exorcist with decades of experience in the ministry, identifies a deeper reason — one that has fallen out of public consciousness but has been Catholic theology for centuries.

The traditional teaching is that an unbaptized child who dies — including a child killed by abortion — cannot be guaranteed the Beatific Vision, the eternal seeing of God which is the meaning and destination of every human soul. Pope Alexander VIII, in 1690, formally condemned the proposition that an infant could be saved without baptism. The Church's historical position has been: we know of no other certain means of salvation for those who die before the use of reason than baptism by water.

This is why abortion is treated with such severity in Catholic moral theology. It is not only the killing of an innocent. It is — Ripperger explains — the act that permanently robs a person of the possibility of seeing God. The Church entrusts these souls to the mercy of God, and we have real grounds for hope. But certainty belongs to the sacraments, and abortion forecloses the sacrament. That is why the historic Catholic position calls it heinous beyond ordinary killing.

IV.

The demons of child sacrifice are not metaphorical. Exorcists name them by name.

This is the part modern Christians, including many modern Catholics, have lost the vocabulary for. The Old Testament prophets describe with sustained horror a Canaanite practice in which infants were burned alive in the arms of bronze statues of the god Moloch. The God of Israel responds to this practice with categorical condemnation. In Leviticus 20, He commands the death penalty for anyone who gives their child to Moloch. In Jeremiah, He declares that the practice is so abhorrent it "never entered My mind" that His people would ever do such a thing.

Catholic exorcists testify that Moloch is not a defunct mythological figure. He is, in their direct ministry experience, a real demonic being who continues to attach himself to cultures that kill their children. Fr. Ripperger names a second one as well: Baphomet — the horned figure The Satanic Temple openly uses as its public icon — is, in his identification, also a demon of child sacrifice.

Ripperger goes further. He observes a cultural pattern that repeats across collapsing civilizations: first impurity, then homosexuality, then child sacrifice. The demon associated with the first stage (Baal) opens the door to the next. The demonic objective at the end of the sequence is not random. It is the killing of children specifically, because demons gain power from the killing of innocents — and they have a secondary motive that returns us to point III: preventing souls from ever attaining the Beatific Vision is their overarching aim. An aborted child cannot grow up, cannot be baptized, cannot enter the family of God. From the demonic perspective, that is the point.

V.

The Satanists are not metaphorical either. They are explicit, in writing, on their own website.

This is no longer the kind of claim that has to be argued. The Satanic Temple, an IRS-recognized religion headquartered in Salem, Massachusetts, publishes the following on its own website, in its own words:

• The procedure is officially named "the Satanic Abortion Ritual."
• It is, in their own document, described as "a destruction ritual that serves as a protective rite."
• In February 2023, they opened "TST Health," described in their materials as the world's first religious abortion clinic, originally named "Samuel Alito's Mom's Satanic Abortion Clinic" in New Mexico.
• In 2024, they opened a second telehealth abortion clinic, this one in Virginia.
• Their public icon is a statue of Baphomet — the same demon Ripperger names as the demon of child sacrifice — which they have erected at their headquarters and attempted to place on multiple public properties.

This is not a Catholic accusation against modern Satanists. This is what the modern Satanists say about themselves, formally, in legal filings, on their own published materials, and in their press releases. They are not hiding it. They are advertising it. The only question that remains is whether Christians take their stated theology seriously, or pretend it does not mean what it plainly says.