Welcome to a breakpoint, a daily look, and an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Well, recently, a history teacher from Littleton, Colorado, went viral for praising the way that the Incas, her favorite empire, sacrificed children.

She also reprimanded white education for wrongly teaching generations of Americans

that the practice was necessarily bad. No, I'm not making this up. After noting that human sacrifice

was common within most ancient civilizations, the teacher then clarified that the Incan version

of the practice offered victims from the upper class because they were closer

to the gods. Also, the Inca's drugged the children before leaving them to die of exposure on top of a

mountain. Objections to the cultural practice, she continued, are primarily due to a white perspective,

which focuses on the negative aspects of great civilizations while ignoring their wonderful accomplishments.

Now, defending child sacrifice is, of course, the ultimate expression of cultural relativism.

In this view, all cultures are equally valid, except for, of course, white cultures that judge others.

To paraphrase a former colleague, in this view, there's no difference between

cultures that love their neighbors and cultures that eat their neighbors. But of course, this

teacher's innovative defense of the Incas misses a few important points. First, children as young as

four were sacrificed, even if they could consent at that age. Does that make it any less horrific?

But of course, they cannot consent at that age. And the teacher fails to mention evidence of a

four to five-year-old child who was tied up before being buried alive. No, the simplest explanation

for drugging young victims is minimizing resistance, not kindness, as the teacher claimed.

And to that point, is there any scenario whatsoever in which drugging a child and leaving her or him to die could be considered kind, even if that were the intent?

And just as inconvenient to this narrative about the Incas, are the sacrificial victims

that were found who died from strangulation, suffocation, being stabbed in the back. It's much more

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