Ancient Israel or Modern America?

"Listen to the word of the Lord! the Lord Sabaoth, the God of Israel, says this: I am bringing down such a disaster on this place that the ears of every one who hears of it will ring. This is because they have abandoned me, have profaned this place, have offered incense here to alien gods which neither they, nor their ancestors, nor the kings of Judah, ever knew before. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent. They have built high places for Baal to burn their sons there, which I had never ordered or decreed, which had never entered my thoughts." - Jeremiah 19:3-5

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This was a part of the 1st reading from the Office of Readings on Monday, 31 August 2009. & while it describes the circumstances of the Kingdom of Judah arround 600 BC, it sure sounds a lot like the USA in 2009 AD as well. Everything from liturgical abuse to New Age practices being welcome in many Catholic Churches to abortion is covered. The modern equivlent of the high places would be our abortion clinics.