Hernan Cortez described similar scenes he witnessed with the Aztecs.
Not all cultures are equal. Some deserve to be destroyed.
If what you did 2000 years ago is the judgment we use to decide with cultures survive we are going to be wiping out all of them.
“Not all cultures are equal. Some deserve to be destroyed.”
Then please tell us what culture back then and before was worthy of sparing and praise?
Bernal Diaz, one of Cortez’ grunts, a soldier in the ranks, left a spectacular memoir of the conquest from the point of view of the common man.
He repeatedly implies, but deliberately does not detail outright, every sort of atrocity and unnatural sexual act the Indian priests got up to in their temples. And this was a man well used to extreme violence.
The Biblical consequence for nationally legalized child sacrifice is invasion and conquest. There can be one reprieve with outlawing it but once it is again ordained, it’s over. If there is no outlawing the practice, the time of the invasion is up to God.
America has butchered over 50 million children.
Surely at the command (mouth) of the LORD it came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; AND THE LORD WOULD NOT FORGIVE. [All caps mine] 2 Kings 24: 3 &4.
Manasseh sacrificed his firstborn.