ό ων;54201323 said:
The Gauls were from Celtic peoples near a region which is now France/Belgium. This area was conquered by Julius Caesar in 51 BC. The people continued to practice their pagan religion which was simply incorporated into the polytheistic soup that existed back then, one of which was the altar to zeus in Pergamos, (a rather important one). They (Gauls) sacrificed men employing the Druids to perform the sacrifices. It seems they would fill large containers with live men and set them on fire. This manner of sacrifice stems from the biblical accounts of the Asherah poles, a canaan religion where sacrificing included children. Who is lying?
Your deliberate ignorance is appalling.
You seem to operate under the delusion that pagan polytheism was a singular, cross-cultural religion. It wasn't. The Celts had their own pantheons, their own rituals, their own religion. And they did not worship Zeus (safe except for the inhabitants of Massilia and similar Greek colonies).
The Greeks didn't sacrifice human beings; their myths condemn the practice pretty much universally, and no archaeological evidence has ever showed up to suggest anything else. At best, the Minoan culture that preceded that of classical Greece might have condoned such practices, but even that is not undisputed.
And naturally, the Celtic religion and its rituals had virtually NOTHING to do with Canaanite practices. You might just as well claim that Shiva is in fact just another name for the god Baal.
As for the Wicker Man-sacrifice: do you support the death penalty? I don't, and consider it barbarism, but I know that many conservative Christians, particularly in the USA, have a different take on the question.
Now, the practice of burning people in large containers was a form of capital punishment, according to Julius Caesar. The victims were convicted murderers who received "their due". That doesn't redeem the practice as far as I'm concerned, but I wonder how someone who opts for the execution of murderers could possibly object.
