About the Moloch Metaphor -- are people using these names because they literally believe in Bronze Age demons and the Carthagenian tophet offerings, or are they just grasping for a vocabulary big enough to describe the horror of systemic exploitation?

In archaeology, Baal was a god of life-giving rain, but in the modern myth, he’s been rebranded as a devourer of children. It’s a total 180-degree flip from the historical record, showing that these figures aren't being "rediscovered"—they’re being recycled as convenient villains for a 21st-century ghost story. Blame the Israelites for rebranding the Canaanites as devil worshippers.