I doubt that ‘infant sacrifice’ was uncommon anywhere back then. Probably not at any time.
“I doubt that ‘infant sacrifice’ was uncommon anywhere back then. Probably not at any time.”
We’re seeing much the same thing in our own culture now. Much of the same rationalizations and such used to justify abortion on demand now had to be concerns in ancient times too. Especially when famine and poverty were crushingly in ways that affect few areas now.
The only differences I can honestly see between the current and the past is there’s no attempts to appease “gods” with it now.