re: RI middle school had mural of Moloch?

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Do you have any evidence that this person is lying, or is that just you hoping?

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All of the evidence is pointing to her lying.

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I have seen no such evidence.

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I haven’t seen any evidence of the press release being real or the picture itself (in the context in which has been claimed) for that matter.

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But you have. You just admitted you saw that it was reported. You just don't believe the source, even with no basis not to believe it.

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Please link any independent source of information that is not Ramona Bessinger's original tweet, Ramona Bessinger's "press release," or some derivative of either. (Nope, you can't use Alex Jones' retweet, Charisma Magazine Online's retweet, or any other source that is retweeting the original tweet.)

No? No source that doesn't rely upon the hoax source?

Are y'all trolling, don't care about credibility, or are you just morons?

Frankly though, your view also depends on interpretation. Then it just comes down to which interpretation is more logical.

Yours proposes that a people completely conquered another people as commanded by their God, but then just decided to adopt the conquered peoples’ language, culture, and religious practices. My interpretation proposes that one subgroup of a people decided to elevate one god that they all worshipped over the other gods and then centuries later came up with some stories to justify why they were better than the other members of their group because of who they worshipped.

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Yours proposes that a people completely conquered another people as commanded by their God, but then just decided to adopt the conquered peoples’ language, culture, and religious practices.

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Foo is like a cartoon ostrich with its head in the sand. He doesn’t realize that Abraham of the Chaldeans - that story was invented by a sect of Jews returning from Babylon as an excuse to steal or hold power in Jerusalem. It establishes “proper Jews come from Babylon… all you others who claim to be Jews are really just Canaanites so we are going to take your land and property since you don’t worship Yahweh in the same way as us.” The reality is they were all Canaanites with slightly different religious practices and all smoke the same language and used the same script and did the same things culturally.

Moses was the folk hero mythical patriarch of a batch of Jews that probably lived for some time in Egypt. (Remember for a long time until around 1000BC Egypt owned Canaan as a possession or colony.). The mythical folk hero Adam (spelled exactly as Edom) was the progenitor of Jews from their southern neighbor Edom. Cain, Abel, Seth, Enoch (and the variant Noah), Jacob, Isaac, Joseph… were all mythical patriarchs of different Canaanite tribes in the region that eventually became Israel and Judah.

Once tribes made allegiances and alliances, they seeked to unify their underlings and peons and invented stories of how their patriarchs were brothers or cousins or one was a father to a son or similar. Thing kind of thing is still preserved in the Bible as they claim the Moabites and Ammonites are the bastard incestuous offspring of Abraham’s nephew Lot.

As the Assyrians conquered all of Israel and Judah (except Jerusalem) all the altars and hilltop shrines were destroyed. When Hezekiah paid them off by looting his own temple and giving them all the gold, all that was left in all of Israel and Judah was one single temple… in Jerusalem. It was the temple where they worshipped Yahweh alone from the other gods they worshipped in other places such as el Elyon (Dan, BethEl) and Asherah (hilltop groves of trees). Yahweh must be the best god since he was the only one who could repel the Assyrians. So all of Judah began to worship there and Hezekiah and his sons loved it - they were getting rich beyond their wildest dreams. The Jewish kings liked it so much that they outlawed worship of other deities to keep the money flowing into the royal temple.

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My interpretation proposes that one subgroup of a people decided to elevate one god that they all worshipped over the other gods and then centuries later came up with some stories to justify why they were better than the other members of their group because of who they worshipped.

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Exactly, so after the exile and the rebuilding of the temple with Persian funds from the Messiah Cyrus, they wrote stories of how angry Yahweh gets when the people worship other gods. They wrote stories of why only their form of Persian-influenced Yahweh worship was permitted. They had to set themselves apart to justify their mistreatment of the Canaanites - the Jews who stayed behind in Judah after the royalty and educated class were carted off to Babylon.

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What I’m trying to draw attention to is how your view isn’t necessarily better than mine from a truth-claim perspective

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It's better from an evidence perspective, though.

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because both your claim and mine have philosophical biases

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Are you really trying to frame relying on evidence as a "philosophical bias"?

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but the biblical account also lends an abundance of eye-witness testimony to the situation

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Does it?

You can somewhat say this with the NT and Jesus, because of Roman record-keeping (although it's still a...not strong argument) , but what historical (non-Biblical) evidence are you relying on to say we had eye-witness testimony of this transition period (either for the Jews or Canaanites, it matters not)?