RE: The religious practices of the Cannaanites and worshipers of Baal and Molech involved child sacrifice of burning their newborns alive as sacrifices to those gods.
OK, then please explain why this would include killing EVEN THE CHILDREN? If they were the victims of child sacrifice, why eliminate the victims?
Children can learn at a very early age and sometimes, the damage is done by toddlerhood.
Not to mention, who’s going to take care of all those kids?
How do you feed and nurture hundreds or thousands of babies?
Just as in the Garden of Eden, the devil's intentions was to 'pollute' the blood line to Christ... For the same cause that Noah and his family were the only blood line from the Adam and Eve with a 'perfect' pedigree. The devil and his apostles play church too.