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Comment by MiguelX413

5 days ago

Being able to vote between Moloch and Baʿal is hardly “a democracy”.

Those were both good deities before the peoples who replaced their worshippers demonized them:

Some history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Q9uyFASF0

  • I do know that history actually, I was learning about the Baʿal Cycle last night actually, I'm a huge fan of linguistics and also learning about Semitic Religion. I was using them in the idiomatic sense in which they would usually be understood by the average reader.

    I mean, I even went through the effort of expressing the pharyngeal consonant.

    Address the spirit of my message rather than the letter please. I perhaps would've used a better expression if I could've thought about it first.