oh no doubt semites sacrificed their children. carthage was a holdout into the roman period because they came under less foreign influence than the levant did. the problem is that one cannot trust the bible to give a clear picture of what actually happened, and its where all this moloch and baal stuff comes from. i would argue it is also probably where baal and yahweh being similar comes from too, while it might not have been that way in reality. indeed, the bibles purpose may be to conflate, simplify and confuse the real history. could they have sacrificed children to yhwhmlk at some point? maybe.
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