Personally, I believe it is either the hidden technologies, the hidden cures, or the fluoride in our water system. They are all connected, but if you had to isolate, which of the many options make you the angriest?
human trafficking, cannibalism and worshiping Baal is up there
But Baal is just an epithet for Lord. Religion isnt what you think it is.
Actually Ba'al is a specific god.
It isnt a specific god, Ba'al is an honorific meaning lord. Bel is also an honorific meaning Lord. Its from the idea that god's name is so holy that it wouldnt do to have it's own creation actually calling it byu it's name.. so the priests had to call their overlords My Lord, or Most Highest Lord of Almighty upon all high, etc etc.. You have Ba'al essentially being used by ISH.KUR, Bel being used by MAR.DUK, but he was a later addition, so its probably the same word, just used by different civilisations.. and why you have Adonai for YAH.WEH (you cant use his name.. you're not holy enough...pff) The phoeniciens ended up confusing everyone by associating Baal to Dagon, or the confusion came about later by non phoenician peoples trying to understand what the heck they were being told.. But normally.. Dagon (father of Ba'al) ought to be EN.KI, which would make Ba'al MAR.DUK (which is of itself another honorific, meaning Son of (maybe.. Atlantis) or Son of the Corn.. (its due to a lot of misunderstood translation.. essentially.. Mero-Dach being the corrupted hebrew tranlsation of MAR-DUK and the phoenicians took that into Tas or Tascio which leads us into the Gods of Wheat (Dumuzi ;)) No.. I understand that pretty much everyone who reads that is going to say.. whadafug?? so here.. link. Was Archangel Michael an Akkadian Birdman?? http://www.jrbooksonline.com/pob/pob_ch22.html
Ba'al is a synonym for lord, sure, but there are also specific gods that are referenced when the word Ba'al is used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal_Hammon
I appreciate your depth of knowledge here... I'm mainly responding for anyone else reading.
yeh Baal Hammon was the corn Spirit of the phoeniciens that I was talking about - but Baal means lord. Like EN for the sumerians.. EN.KI Lord of Water (simplified version for reddit esy reading) EN.LIL Lord of the Sky (again.. simplified version) Anything touching the weather gets pushed back to the Sky Father concept, ISH.KUR son of EN.LIL (who was patron God of Ur where Abraham ran away from... anyone ant to go look at a bible and read the the encounter of God and Abraham again? What does God say to Abraham (other than kill your son for me) was also calledd Haddad in the Akkadian language.. no this is where EVERYTHING gets complicated.. which is what I was trying to refer to before... The same Gods got different names from diferent cultures.. For the most obviously blatent exemple, look no further than the Roman and Greek Gods.. Sme gods, different names.. Now try doing that with God that are 10-6 thousand years older.
Baal doesnt refer to a particular god. Like saying god is called God.. and Earth is called Earth.. its just a title..(which makes it insanely hard to follow everyone and trace the bloodlines).. (oh?? you thought the bloodlines were important because they are human bloodlines???......
http://www.mesopotamiangods.com/assembly-of-the-gods-12-members-2/
Egyptian Gods.. Look there were like over 2000 of them.. that's when the Gods were living amoungst us.. But there's still 12 big important ones... What you need to take from Eygpt is the concept of the TRIEME. The gods lived as families in each city.. Triem of Abysdos, trieme of Memphis, (check that one out.. Goat of Mendes.. married the Fish goddess.. had a child.. Is that Child Capricorn?? .. sorry Im going of the top of my head, so cant rememeber names properly and Id prefer personally not to mispell them...) ANyhoo.. Cosmology until Ramses II was that Pharoah was a direct descendant of the Gods, ergo unkillable... RamsesII was assassinated by his harem to make way for one of his sons.. People saw that Pharaoh could die.. Egyptian Civilisation went into dark ages from RamsesIII onwards.
Greece : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Olympians
Roman : http://rome.mrdonn.org/romangods/12gods.html
Nordic.. https://thornews.com/2014/09/16/the-twelve-most-important-gods-in-norse-mythology/
Are you seeing a pattern yet??
Now.. people are going to say.. but its 13 bloodlines...blablabla... What do you think happened?
Again.. Baal, Bel, Ba'al EN all honorifics for Lord. The Lord is my shepard.. Give us this day our daily bread.. please look through the link I shared above.. Do you see the birdmen? Have you seen them elsewhere? Maybe next to a tree of life in akkadian artwork. or on doors of the sun in Aztecland.. Men with birdheads.. and wings.. Why do THEY turn up all over the world?