[justshutupandtakeit]

How does a professor attempting to explain this culture get turned into someone who is claimed is defending it or not recognizing its evil? The FACTS he states are not defenses. What he said about the Mayans is TRUE.

Does that Anthropologist who explains the Voodoo cult automatically become its justifier? Or the Classicist explain Iphigenia's death at the hands of her father defend human sacrifice or killing children?

[freedomdefender]

The FACTS he states are not defenses.

If we're talking about the professor who says the human sacrifice was part of a "complex world view," then, yes, he is offering a form of defense. A stupid defense, but a defense nevertheless. (Stupid, in part because there isn't anything very "complex" in the idea that you have to kill somebody in order to appease a god. That "idea" can be explained in one sentence. Stupid, too, because it isn't an argument that makes the ancient Maya look any less savage, in fact it underscores their savagery. Human sacrifice is the very definition of savagery.)