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STATUE OF MOLECH, PAGAN DEITY OF CHILD SACRIFICE, DISPLAYED AT COLOSSEUM

11-11-2019
Deborah Bunting





The statue on display at the Roman Colosseum is similar to this depiction of the
pagan deity Moloch from the National Cinema Museum in Turin, Italy. | Wikimedia
Commons/Jean-Pierre Dalbéra

ANALYSIS

Call it an odd juxtaposition, or a paean to the bloody pagan practices of two
warring cities, ancient Rome and its ancient Mediterranean rival, Carthage. 
From now through March 2020, as part of an exhibit celebrating the city of
Carthage, a giant statue of Molech, the god of the ancient Canaanites and
Carthaginians, will greet visitors at the entrance to the Roman Colosseum.  

Molech is the pagan god who required his devotees to toss their children into
his fiery belly as an act of worship. The location of the display is
particularly worth noting since the Roman Colosseum is where many early
Christians were slaughtered at the hands of lunatic dictators fearful of a faith
they could not stop.  

Previously, the Catholic Church had made the Colosseum a sacred site to honor
these first Christians martyred for their faith, even placing Stations of the
Cross there for the faithful to contemplate their sacrifice. Now it's guarded by
the pagan god Molech, whose demand for child sacrifice has been compared to the
modern epidemic of abortion, and the faithful are greeted with a statue honoring
a pagan deity whose murderous spirit still seeks to kill children.



LifeSite News reports it is not a welcome sight for some Christian pilgrims. "We
were so excited the day we decided to go to the Colosseum," Alexandra Clark told
the outlet via email. "But the moment we got there the sight that greeted us was
horrifying! Standing guard over the entrance was the colossal pagan statue of
Moloch. It was placed in that prime spot so that everyone that entered into the
Colosseum had to pass it," she continued. For Clark, it was "a mockery" of the
martyrdom of those early Christians.

The name for this pagan god is often spelled Molech in the Bible, but other
cultures also use the spelling Moloch. According to LifeSite, the statue of
Moloch that's been placed at the Colosseum is modeled on one found in the 1914
Italian silent film Cabiria. In the film, the idol of Moloch, set up in a
Carthaginian temple, has a giant bronze furnace in his chest, into which
hundreds of children are thrown. Cabiria, the heroine of the film, is threatened
with this fiery fate.

Ancient Greek historians record that burning children alive as an offering was a
common practice in Carthage. The Carthaginians "called the deity Baal and Cronus
or Saturn, the Roman god who, according to myth, ate his own children lest they
supplant him." 

Molech is also mentioned several times in the Book of Leviticus, where child
sacrifice is strictly forbidden.




Some traditional Catholics see an ironic timing of this display, calling it
another confirmation that their basic church doctrine is being undermined from
within. The debut of the Molech statue coincided with the meeting of the South
American Amazon synod at the Vatican where pagan fertility statues were on
display, even within sight of Pope Francis. The Catholic faithful were outraged.

Megan Fox writes in PJ Media, "It started when the opening ceremony in the
Vatican garden was full of earth worship and what appeared to be idol worship
happening right in front of the pope with his blessing. One doesn't have to be
an art major to recognize ancient fertility goddesses...Prostrating before
carved images of fertility goddesses is not Catholic."

Demands for an explanation went unaddressed. Finally, Fox writes, "some
unidentified Catholics took matters into their own hands and walked into the
church next to St. Peter's where the images were displayed and removed them and
threw them into the Tiber."

It didn't help reassure those bold believers that the head of the Amazon Synod,
Bishop Erwin Krautler, is reported to have said, "I have not yet baptized an
Indian, and I also will not do it."

Fox explains the Catholic view of this: "This statement has not been denied by
Krautler. Baptism is a key sacrament in the Catholic faith and the Church
teaches that one cannot enter heaven without it."

In a statement explaining their actions, those who tossed the pagan artifacts
into the Tiber said love required them to take action. "Because we love
humanity, we cannot accept that people of a certain region should not get
baptized and therefore are being denied entrance into heaven. It is our duty to
follow the words of God..."

The takeaway from the Amazon Synod for traditional Catholics, according to Fox,
is that "the Catholic Church has been thrown into a state of total confusion
since Pope Francis ascended to the seat of St. Peter. His silence and the
silence of Church leaders on crucial issues of the faith have created chaos and
division between the left-wing and traditional Catholics."

And for the faithful, displaying a statue of Molech at the place where Nero
tortured Christians and fed them to the lions is equally disturbing and another
step toward exalting idols that should be cast down instead.

Image of Moloch acquired via Wikimedia Commons under license.

 

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