Ba'al (Hadad) seems like a cooler god than Yahweh. He is much more sexual, literally fertilizing the ground with his divine semen (rain). Meanwhile Yahweh is a sexually repressed autistic. Ba'al Hammon of Carthage is also pretty cool
>>18689491Ba'al is just Yawehs more chad brother. But that entire pantheon is a backwater bunch of redneck tribal deities, by ancient religious standards. Even after the reformation into Yawehism, they couldn't stop sacrificing foreskins and practicing blood rituals. Disgusting shit. Ba'al also demanded a human sacrifice ritual called 'moloch' which required living children to be thrown down the mouth of a massive statue. The inside of the statue was a giant pit of fire.
>>18689496>Even after the reformation into Yawehism, they couldn't stop sacrificing foreskins and practicing blood rituals. Disgusting shit.That is unique to Yahweh. Ba'al did not require ritual circumcision.
>>18689496>Ba'al also demanded a human sacrifice ritual called 'moloch' which required living children to be thrown down the mouth of a massive statue.Yahweh also commanded this of the Israelites when he was giving them "bad laws/statutes" on purpose
>>18689496> Ba'al also demanded a human sacrifice ritual called 'moloch' which required living children to be thrown down the mouth of a massive statue. The inside of the statue was a giant pit of fire.There’s a good chance this was just Roman propoganda to make the Carthagians look like monsters
>>18689507Really it’s just a social custom they copied from the Egyptians when they ruled the Levant under the New Kingdom, all the religious/Yahweh stuff is just a retcon story from long after the fact
>>18689507The way I look at it is: ritual circumcision is merely a sidegrade from full on child sacrifice. It's disgusting either way>>18689509Maybe he was trying to be more like Ba'al to win El's favor. El is the one who gave Israel to Yaweh in any case>>18689512>There’s a good chance this was just Roman propoganda to make the Carthagians look like monstersThe Phoenicians in Carthage identified themselves as Canaanite, specifically with a history of cult worship to Ba'al. "Phoenician" is just what the Romans called them. Whatever the Romans said aside, archeological findings from Carthage heavily support the idea that they were sacrificing children + animals to Ba'al.
>>18689491Reminder that there was literally nothing wrong with human sacrifice as it was a form of eugenics. Pretty much all of the little shits sacrificed to Baal were impure and thus posed a threat to their communities. If Baal’s name wasn’t invoked, everyone here would be calling it based.Notice how the Levant was homogenous and white when they worshipped the Canaanite gods and became brown shortly after embracing Christianity and later Islam…
>>18689591>Pretty much all of the little shits sacrificed to Baal were impure and thus posed a threat to their communitiesWho told you that? That's retarded. Often they would select the most noble children in their population, to be sacrifices, as that would be more pleasing to their deity.>Reminder that there was literally nothing wrong with human sacrifice as it was a form of eugenicsYou sound like a strong case example for why we might want to bring that practice back, actually. >Notice how the Levant was homogenous and white when they worshipped the Canaanite gods and became brown shortly after embracing Christianity and later Islam…I notice that you don't know anything in what you're talking about. The Levant was never white. They were always brown Semitic speaking backwater cultists. They didn't "become brown after embracing Christianity and later Islam".Christianity and Islam are offshoots of the same Canaanite religion. Carthage with the Phoenicians were northern Canaanites that favored Ba'al, and Israel/Judea were southern Canaanites who eventually reformed their polytheistic religious beliefs into Yawehism. Israelites struggled to replace Ba'al worship practices with Yaweh-exclusive practices for a very long time. They didn't become more or less brown over the course of that history, you dimwitted moron. It's all Semitic cult mythology no matter how you wanna cope about it.
>>18689548I don't see how child sacrifice is more disgusting than animal sacrifice.
>>18689708Then you don't value human lives more than the lives of animals. That kind of thinking reflects a critical lack of moral character. Ritual sacrifice is disgusting, and human (child) sacrifice on principle is much more wasteful & harmful than animal sacrifice.
>>18689591>the Levant was homogenous and white when they worshipped the Canaanite godsreally nigga?
>>18689687>Who told you that? That's retarded. Often they would select the most noble children in their population, to be sacrifices, as that would be more pleasing to their deity.archeology. Every single sacrificed baby has been founded to have been disgenic.>The Levant was never white. They were always brownWrong, every dna sample of people from the time has given the same result, fair skin and blond hair. The region didn’t become brown until they stopped sacrificing little shits and allow them to fester.
>>18689969>archeologyWrong>Every single sacrificed baby has been founded to have been disgenic.You're lying. The remains they found were ashes in clay jars. Impossible to tell whether or not the children were "disgenic" or healthy, either way. We have written accounts from witnesses who saw the rituals, and they never mentioned "specifically only cripple kids were chosen as sacrifices" or anything like that. But we know they selected children specifically, and they used smaller jars to collect their ashes. >Wrong, every dna sample of people from the time has given the same result, fair skin and blond hair. The region didn’t become brown until they stopped sacrificing little shits and allow them to fester.Source? I mean, don't post your ass if you can help it. Granted that's where you pulled this information from.
>>18689496>But that entire pantheon is a backwater bunch of redneck tribal deities, by ancient religious standards.Everybody who wasn't your own people were "a backwater bunch of redneck tribals" and so were their deities.>Ba'al also demanded a human sacrificeIncorrect.
>>18689548The Romans and Hellenes leveraged their complaints exclusively against Carthaginians. Not a peep about Utica or any of the other city states, and especially nothing in Canaan itself. The Hellenes didn't even write about it until they had political conflict with Carthage, and there were plenty of detractors of the Canaanites among them throughout the ages. The only other people to write about it are the Jews, and mostly as a batshit insane self-flagellation routine, which is remarkable considering virtually everybody interacted with the Canaanites. The Babylonians, Persians, Assyrians, Egyptians, etc. None of them ever mentioned it. Which is weird because every single one of these people controlled the land at one point or another. Many of them were also autistic documentarians and some of them were staunch moralists. But nobody thought to document the culture's engaging in widespread industrial infanticide on a whimsy.So we have a ridiculous accusation, made by a very few number of people, at the boundary of a city-state rather than the broader culture it belongs to, a specific city-state they had beef with, and it's a story not corroborated by any other party, and isn't documented in any of the culture's own works, and all archeological evidence is highly suspect at best.
Jewish pantheon is lame
