[No — they let them grow up first. Then they cut their hearts out.]
Well, you got me there, snatching the most innocent of the innocent out of the womb for ‘convenience’ is much more civilized.
Over fifteen million ‘pesky problems’ solved and counting.
We are going to pay for that someday, maybe someday soon. At least we have the consolation that, even after Jezebel made a tophet in Jerusalem, the God of the Israelites didn't turn totally away from them. But I wonder if that had something to do with the Assyrian conquest and the punishment of the Babylonian Captivity.