They didn’t really kill their children, did they? To “pass son or daughter through the fire” means they shifted them really fast kind of near the flame, right? That’s how I read Moses.
Then I got logged down in 1 Kings 16 and started digging into how they worshiped Baal and Asherah. It’s ugly.
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/archaeologists-ancient-peruvian-empire-sacrificed-140-kids/ar-AAwrJDc?ocid=spartandhp
- https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/27/606372522/remains-found-of-more-than-140-children-who-were-sacrificed-in-peru
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/04/28/peru-sacrificed-children-archaeologists/560980002/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sacrifice
- https://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/4372130/jewish/The-Tragic-History-of-Molech-Child-Sacrifice.htm
- https://www.livescience.com/59514-cultures-that-practiced-human-sacrifice.html
