Yes, today's sacrifice of innocent babies to Baal. Not for fertility now, but for what?
Get a Bible concordance and research the ammonite (Ammon, as in Jordon) god, Moloch. The Israelites worshipped many false gods, two of which were Moloch and Baal. Keep in mind too that the Baal worshippers called their false god “god and lord”. Baal had many priests and priestesses. I compare these to today’s celebrities.
Moloch, however, was the god in which babies were sacrificed to. There are many warnings in the OT and NT(Acts 7:23) about how Moloch worship would lead to the land/nation becoming defiled.
Makes sense now why the Bible was removed from schools ten years before RvW.
To answer your q as to why. Rebellion against the one true God.