Do people still worship Baal?

Baal has had a bad press. Ever since the authors of the Bible portrayed him as a wicked god, to whom worshippers would offer up the sacrifice of their first-born sons, Baal has had an image problem.

It was not always thus. For hundreds of years before the Bible demonized him, Baal was loved and worshipped as a fertility god, the bringer of rain, the prince of peace. He caused the crops to grow and defeated the power of death. He defended the people from their enemies.

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