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Moloch, Molech, or Molek [a] is a word which appears in the Hebrew Bible several times, primarily in the Book of Leviticus. The Bible strongly condemns practices that are associated with Moloch, which are heavily implied to include child sacrifice. [2] Traditionally, the name Moloch has been understood as referring to a Canaanite god. [3]
Moloch played an important role in Jeff Lindsey's novel Dexter in the Dark (2007). Moloch is a character in the Felix Castor novels written by Mike Carey (2007 and following). In Derek Landy's Skulduggery Pleasant (2007), Moloch is the name of a vampire living in Ballymun.
Henry "Harry" Edwards, a founding member. The tradition of a summer encampment was established six years after the Bohemian Club was formed in 1872. [2] Henry "Harry" Edwards, a stage actor and founding member, announced that he was relocating to New York City to further his career.
"Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness!" Fire god of the Canaanites referred to in Leviticus 18:21: "And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech." Worship of Moloch involved the sacrifice of children by fire. [58] [77] "Moloch whose buildings are judgement!" A reference to Urizen, one of William Blake's four Zoas. [77]
Growth led to a new center, the Islamic Center of America, being unveiled in 2005, at 120,000 square feet, the largest mosque in North America and the oldest Shia mosque in the United States.
''Offering to Molech'' in Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us, by Charles Foster, 1897.The drawing is a typical depiction of child sacrifice. Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children in order to please or appease a deity, supernatural beings, or sacred social order, tribal, group or national loyalties in order to achieve a desired result.
Celebrity worship may become problematic when admiration becomes an obsession. "It can be dangerous if [an attachment to a celebrity] takes on too much importance, to the point where real-life ...
However, it is derived from the verse's use of the word "ומזרעך", lit. "and from your seed", that this prohibition is only when some of one's children are sacrificed in this worship; when all of one's children are sacrificed, this is not punishable. This is explained with the reasoning that the intention of the Molech worship is to ...