In a recent archaeological discovery, an ancient altar used for child sacrifices was unearthed in Tikal National Park, Guatemala. On April 9, CBS News reported that the altar, attributed to the Teotihuacan culture, contained the remains of three children under the age of four. An archaeologist described these sacrifices as a means of “connecting with the celestial bodies,” suggesting they were not acts of violence, but cultural religious practices. Regardless of cultural context, the deliberate taking of innocent life constitutes violence. Labeling such acts as non-violent due to their ritualistic nature risks normalizing the unjustifiable. CBS should know better than to give such a story the slightest of credence.
CBS justified its position using an “expert,” reporting, “María Belén Méndez, an archaeologist who was not involved with the project, said the discovery confirms “that there has been an interconnection between both cultures and what their relationships with their gods and celestial bodies was like. We see how the issue of sacrifice exists in both cultures. It was a practice; it’s not that they were violent, it was their way of connecting with the celestial bodies.” What? Really? Drawing parallels to contemporary society, abortion in the United States since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision has claimed over 63 million lives of the unborn. In addition, there is child slave and sex trafficking that further devalues life and normalizes children as disposable. And the “Left” also tries to sell these abominations as non-violent “rights” of American culture.
The comparison highlights a societal desensitization to the loss of innocent life. Both scenarios involve the cessation of life under the justification of cultural or personal reasoning. In confronting these realities, it is imperative to consider the moral implications of our choices and the narratives we construct to justify them. Equally disturbing is America’s standing in the global crisis of child sex trafficking. The US ranks as one of the top destinations for human trafficking, particularly involving minors. According to the Department of Justice and multiple watchdog organizations, tens of thousands of children are trafficked within US borders every year. The vast majority are exploited for sex—used, discarded, and forgotten in a system that values profit over innocence.
Illegal immigration further exacerbates this horror. The open-border chaos has become a goldmine for traffickers, who exploit unaccompanied minors and use false “family units” to smuggle children into the US for commercial sexual exploitation. Reports from Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security reveal that over 85,000 minors have been “lost” in the system since 2021, many never accounted for after being released to unvetted sponsors. In both ancient and modern contexts, children are being sacrificed—then for religion, now for convenience, profit, or politics—which has become its own religion. Psalm 127:3 says, “children are a heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.” Normalizing their sacrificing as “non-violent” and cultural is worse than, say it with me…Stupidocrisy.
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