Robert Escandon, B.A. Philosophy & Psychology, The University of Texas at El Paso (2005), #fundie

Robert Escandon, B.A. Philosophy & Psychology, The University of Texas at El Paso (2005), #fundie quora.com

You answered your own question. The Canaanites sacrificed their children to their god, Molech. The way they would do it is they would place a toddler on the hands of a statue of Molech that has been over fire which made the hands red hot; the Canaanites would let the child scream until it died on those red hot hands as a sacrifice despite God (the true God) warning them to stop. After about a hundred years, God ordered the elimination of the Canaanites through Joshua. God stopped the evil of killing innocent children yet God is constantly criticized for stopping that evil by the very same people who claim God won’t stop the evils of the world today.

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For when awards are implemented again, I nominate this for the “Destroying The Village In Order To Save It” award.

Is this the same true God who ordered the Hebrews repeatedly to murder every male child and rape every female child of most of the tribes they conquered? And even murder every child, down to infant, of both sexes, of one tribe?

There is absolutely no Biblical basis for this.

The nearest thing is "And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD,” from Leviticus.

The stone hands and the baby screaming until it died is the usual vapid emotionalism.

TOTAL BULLSHIT.

The Bible mentions the sacrifice of children and fire in connection with the Canaanites, along with a number of other “bad” things, mainly in restrospect as a justification for attacking and killing them. The prophet Jeremiah also complains that the Israelites copied this practice. Go figure.

There is, however, no real evidence that this ever happened. It’s probably just propoganda mixed with a misunderstanding of rituals which included burning meat for the god.

The description of the method offered by our Texan(!) with a mere master’s degree is a huge lie. Where did he come up with this? Is Texas planning to use this method for its rampant, mass use of capital punishment? The oh so Christian way of regulating society?

Hey, @Denizen? You don't need to tag quotes with the site name. The system automatically keeps track of which site it's connected to.

What does God need with sacrifices? [/Capt. James T. Kirk]

Least of all those of children? Can you say ‘Hosea 13:16′ and ‘War Crimes'…?!

It’s odd that when I googled child sacrifice to Moloch, I didn’t really see any sources outside of Christian ones and. What little I did find on Wikipedia questioned if it was sacrifice at all or just burial ground for those who were stillborn or died as a child.

Did they find evidence that this was true, outside of the Bible? I want to hear from an archeologist/historian who specializes in Caanites.

Robert Escandon, B.A. Philosophy & Psychology, The University of Texas at El Paso (2005), #fundie quora.com

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