[browardchad]

"The gods need you," explains David Carrasco, professor of religious history at Harvard. "They depend on human life for their own existence, there's this kind of reciprocity."

Present tense. Rather disturbing. I've known a few people along life's way who've been fascinated with Mayan civilization, and with their bloodletting in particular. Scarey people all.

I'm beginning to wonder if Gibson has the same fascination, and if "The Christ" was more a product of obsession with human sacrifice than of any religious motivation.

[SaltyJoe]

Cannibalism is alive and well in this Hemisphere.

That spirit, not of God, who influenced Mayan/Aztec human sacrifice is the same spirit hard at work to eat you today.

Some who have an interest in "know thy enemy" (like me) have a keen interest in this type of CULTure because my ancestors escaped it. Please don't fall asleep unless you want to change your name to "appetizer" or "main entre"...or "browardchad--with a white wine sauce" (Monty Python reference).

MS-13 and other such local hemisphere gangs try to resurrect the spirit of their criminal cult. They are as menacing to mankind as any other terror.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara_Salvatrucha.jpg

American pop culture perpetuates violence similar to how our abortion on demand has be popularized globally.

Above is the rival Mara 18 gangmember (wounded after an encouter with MS13 fight resulting in murders). Hard to tell the difference, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18th_Street_gang

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