Burning Babies & It's Just Pleasure

Worship is something we do all the time, whether we think about it or not, whether we enjoy it or not, or whether we recognize it or not.

The worship of sex has been around for all the ages. Temples existed for it, as well as adultery and fornication.

The scriptures tell us of two different situations which I'm highlighting in which our culture is really no different.

The Canaanite god's demanded that people perform orgies and go 'at it' with each other all the time. In fact, the god's themselves were stimulated, and then would release and relieve themselves on the soil, making the ground more fertile and able to take seed. One major result of sex is babies. Yes, it's true. I read it once in my biology text book in high school, a few moons ago. If you don't believe me, ask your doctor... or your mother.
Anyway, because babies are the result of the act, why wasn't there an extreme population boom in the Canaanite towns/regions? Well, it's because they would light up a fire under a bronze statue (the flame sat under a bowl-esque shaped piece which would be held by the 'god's' hands, and the baby would promptly be thrown into this bowl and burned alive. Yep. That's what they would do.
This was the result of sex as worship... or worshiping sex.
Now, before you go ape crazy and think, "That's disgusting! That's appalling!" Look at our culture first. And then, once you do that, you'll realize that abortion is the same thing. Yes, the same thing.
C.S. Lewis says that if you look down on the people of the past and think, "we're so advanced" that that's chronological snobbery. Abortion is just another form of the same act. I mean, it may seem 'less brutal' because you're not throwing a crying baby that you can hear onto a burning hot slab of metal, but you're still taking a life inside the womb. It doesn't matter which way you dice it, a baby at the point of conception is alive. Sure, it may not be more alive than maybe a bacteria or that one celled ostrich egg, but nonetheless, it is alive. Quality of life means nothing when you just recognize it is alive.
Therefore, if you're a proponent of abortion, then you're no different than the proponents of throwing your baby onto a smoldering metal bowl. Now, I'm going to attack the pro-life people here as well, so you pro-killers can breath for a minute. Most pro-lifers believe just as strongly in free sex, however, they think, if you' don't take the right counter measures, then you have to live with the consequences. I have this to say: You think you're morally superior, but you believe in taking chances into bringing a kid into a situation where they won't necessarily have a loving home, they won't necessarily be brought up by a mother and a father.
Abortion and abandonment are the same thing, so don't be a moron and think you're better. In both cases life, real life is robbed. So don't kid yourself. Don't have sex unless you are married and make sure you're willing to have kids - surprises can happen even if one or both are claimed sterile.

Now, that's the female end of it. What about the male end? In scripture, there was this dude who was to take in his deceased brothers wife, and get her pregnant so in her later years she would have some one to take care of her, but also so the family name could be passed on. This dude that was supposed to sleep with her, did have sex wit her, but at the moment of his climax, he pulled out early, and relieved himself onto the soil. This guy just wanted the pleasure... God was so angry at this guy that he actually struck him dead. So, gentlemen, if this is God's view of such a thing, what should yours be? Only sleep with the girl if you intend to, at some point, give her a kid in her womb.

I'm not against proper counter measures in marriage, but the key thing to remember is they may fail, you may be among the .1% that sees the failure in the system and have a kid. It's very possible, very real.
So make sure your sex is for God's glory, not your own.
Those are just my thoughts at the moment.