XPost: soc.culture.irish, alt.religion.druid   
   From: xremovexwade180@comcast.net   
      
   >> Searles O'Dubhain wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> > Hopefully, today's cultures can benefit from   
   >> > understanding the Celtic past and the much more ancient culture beyond   
   >> > that. These cultures are a part of our modern wiring no matter how we   
   >> > think we've changed. Of course, they become much more important to us   
   >> > when we study them and follow more closely in their footsteps.   
   >>   
   >> kfuzzbox@tinet.ie wrote:   
   >> So when are the Druid's bashing your head in, cutting off your nipples,   
   >> strangling you and then dumping your body in bog then?   
   >>   
   >   
   > These are very strange ideas that you have.   
   >   
   >> Species   
   >> > memory and instincts developed against a many orders of magnitude   
   >> > greater period of time than a few thousand, or even ten thousand years   
   >> > of human activity and tradition. Millions of years have gone into   
   >> > making   
   >> > humans and their cultures what they are today.   
   >>   
   >> So when did you get the sack from Games Workshop?   
   >   
   > It appears that you are very uninformed as well.   
      
   The strange and uninformed tend to latch onto the morbid.   
   While head bashing and garroting may well have been a part   
   of the three-fold death associated with human sacrifice, the   
   evidence suggests such rites were almost certainly a rare   
   occurrence.  That ancient Druids may have presided over   
   such rites is merely a sign of the time in which they lived.   
   Go back far enough in almost any culture's history and you're   
   likely to find similar practices.  It is revealing that the only   
   bit of information the uninformed seem to know about   
   Druids is their connection to this ancient practice.  I'm   
   reasonably certain the twenty years of study mentioned   
   by Caesar would have included a few more bits and bobs   
   in the curriculum.   
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