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When the prophets of Baal failed to do so, Elijah’s God did so, resulting in the slaughter of the prophets of Baal by an angry mob. But the worship of the god was not so easily extinguished.

The Temple of Baal is being rebuilt in New York and London as an operable house of worship, with more such temples to follow. Rating: Mostly False ...

Baal rejoiced and a banquet was held for the gods. In a later passage, Baal was obliged to wage war on various other gods, such as Mot, the god of death who held men in her thrall.

Baal worship is a syncretistic polytheistic religion, in simple terms: they had many different gods and you could sum up their orientation as ‘anything goes’! Syncretism is not just restricted to Baal ...

And Baal worship involved ritualized sexual prostitution to ensure such fertility. Of course, it also produced babies, but you could sacrifice them for added benefit.

For example, the unprecedentedly evil Baal worship under the wicked King Ahab and his non-Jewish Sidonian wife Jezebel was not a populist movement, but rather imposed from the top down.

Follow the Money. If worship is an economic issue, so is idolatry. When we read about the Israelites worshiping Baal in 1 Kings 18, for instance, we often imagine that some the Israelites simply ...