““Any “civilization” that murders its children disappears...usually within about a generation.”
See Carthage, fall of....”
OK, I did, and except for an account about the chief defender’s wife “allegedly went out with her two children, insulted her husband, sacrificed her sons and jumped with them into a fire that the deserters had started.[3] The deserters too then hurled themselves into the flames,[3] upon which Scipio Aemilianus began weeping.”
And Scipio allegedly said, “A day will come when sacred Troy shall perish, And Priam and his people shall be slain.”
Got it from Wikipedia, which is about as reliable as the Fraud’s worshippers at Snopes, but I haven’t been able to find the direct relationship to your post.
Can you cite a more direct correlation?
Carthage practiced child sacrifice to Moloch.
For centuries it was felt that it was just propaganda by the winning Romans.
But recent archeologic research now seems to prove it was a widespread practice.
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2014-01-23-ancient-carthaginians-really-did-sacrifice-their-children