You know, it’s kind of funny when people invoke Moloch in an attempt to infuse the power of Christianity into whatever “think of the children”-of-the-day, because when you think about it it’s not like the Christian tradition is all that down on child sacrifice as such.

I mean, God called off Abraham before he went through with killing Isaac, but the takeaway message of that was that the willingness to sacrifice your child is Right And Good and will be rewarded. (As long as it’s to, you know, the right god - the Moloch slagging strikes me as more part of Jehovah’s well-established jealousy than anything.)

Hell, it’s literally the most canonical thing ever that God sacrificed his own only son. To himself. As the price for his forgiving humanity for violating the strictures that he had insisted on. Because I guess he was always kind of OCD like that.

Anyway, the next time you hear of someone who said that God told them to kill their children, keep an open mind, because that’s well within character.