CBS News, ever the trailblazer in tone-deaf journalism, has decided to take a bold new stance: child sacrifice isn’t that bad if it’s done for religious reasons… you know, to “connect with celestial bodies.”
Yes, you read that right. In what can only be described as a deeply unhinged attempt at cultural relativism, CBS ran a story framing the discovery of a child sacrifice altar in ancient Guatemala not as the grotesque horror it obviously is, but as a spiritually meaningful tradition. Because apparently, when you’re slicing open toddlers for the gods, as long as there’s a cosmic calendar involved, it’s all good.
The archaeological find came from the city-state of Tikal, where a Teotihuacan altar was unearthed containing the remains of three children—none older than four. That alone should be enough to make any sane person recoil. But instead of just reporting the facts, CBS took a detour into moral gymnastics, quoting an archaeologist not even involved in the dig to explain that these sacrifices weren’t violent acts, but rather “a way of connecting with celestial bodies.” Sounds peaceful, right? Just a sweet little cosmic offering—ignore the tiny skulls.
This is where the modern academic-media complex truly shines. Because what better way to sanitize historical evil than by cloaking it in flowery anthropological jargon? According to CBS’s chosen expert, sacrifice “was a practice,” and “not that they were violent.” Oh, so plunging a knife into the chest of a toddler is just a practice now. Like yoga. Or intermittent fasting.
You have to wonder what would happen if someone in the conservative media tried this kind of rhetorical sleight of hand. Picture a Fox News article soft-pedaling some heinous practice from the past because “it was culturally significant.” The pearl-clutching from CNN alone would power the Eastern seaboard. But when legacy media does it—especially in the name of multiculturalism—it’s just “nuanced reporting.”
The message here is unmistakable: if the evil fits the preferred narrative, it gets a pass. CBS didn’t consult a child psychologist or ethicist to reflect on the moral implications of these findings. No, they went straight to a sympathetic academic to explain that, spiritually speaking, the murder of children wasn’t so bad after all. Wouldn’t want to impose modern values on ancient societies, right? Because that might offend someone, somewhere, who thinks ritual child murder deserves a second look.
You’ve heard of mostly peaceful riots. Now introducing non-violent human sacrifice. pic.twitter.com/R9Aub9bOVE
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) April 14, 2025
This isn’t journalism. It’s moral obfuscation dressed up as cultural analysis. And frankly, it’s dangerous. If we can’t unequivocally call the slaughter of children what it is—evil—then what moral ground do we even have left to stand on? This is the same kind of twisted logic that tells us biological men can be women if they say so, that looting is “reparative justice,” and that policing borders is somehow crueler than trafficking children across them.
The corporate media doesn’t just report news anymore; it filters everything through the ideological blender, hoping no one notices the absurdity in the final product. So here we are, with CBS using its platform to gently rebrand infanticide as a spiritual expression of pre-Columbian astronomy.
This isn’t cultural awareness—it’s cultural insanity. And it’s one more reason why more and more Americans are tuning out the media elites and turning to sources that still have the guts to call evil by its name. Because if we can’t all agree that child sacrifice—regardless of century or zip code—is morally reprehensible, then we’ve officially lost the plot.
