2006-08-26 16:56:53 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God demanded human sacrifices in the holy books (even told one guy at the last minute: just kidding)..killed his own son, too, according to one religion. Why worry about the druids when your god has demanded bloody human sacrificies and, for at least one "faith," still does.
2006-08-26 17:00:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ha! Forget the Druids...what about the Christians and the Spanish Inquisition!
2006-08-27 00:00:52 · answer #2 · answered by sweet ivy lyn 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Emperor Claudius stoped the Druids' human sacrifices. Christianity was not a factor.
2006-08-27 02:31:54 · answer #3 · answered by wehwalt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Would Christians still be burning heretics and 'witches' if not for the Reformation?
And how many people were killed conquering Northern Europe?
In fact, isn't the concept of a Christian soldier totally opposed to the doctrine of Christ?
2006-08-27 00:03:44 · answer #4 · answered by bobkgin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know do you think the Pope would organize another Crusade to slaughter the infidels?
Oh, and how did the "Christians" CONQUER Northern Europe? Was it by forgiving and turning the other cheek? Or was it by, as you put it, sacrificing people?
2006-08-27 00:01:59 · answer #5 · answered by th3_0n3_r1ng 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think I read somewhere that they stopped making human sacrifices quite a while before the Roman invasion. It was a "phase", apparently. Just as all religions go through periods of change in worship and interpretation, so did those who followed the Druidic belief structure. Yes, most of their kind were eradicated by the Romans, but by that time their belief systems had evolved beyond human sacrifice.
2006-08-27 00:10:48 · answer #6 · answered by Angela M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.druidsguild.us/faqs.htm
Almost every religion in human existence and history, including monotheistic offered blood sacrifices. The early Hebrews did so regularly and claimed that the smell of burning animal flesh was "pleasing to the Lord". If they hadn't been conquered, I suspect that they would have done what most other religions have done...dropped the blood and continued on.
2006-08-27 00:01:33 · answer #7 · answered by Scott M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Romans killed the druids before they became christians.
2006-08-27 00:01:31 · answer #8 · answered by upallnite 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think all newly saved people should do some reading about their new religion and try to become better informed before they start criticising things they don't know anything about.
2006-08-27 00:04:17 · answer #9 · answered by casey54 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i doubt it. you think Christians never sacrificed anyone? how about the spanish inquisition?
2006-08-27 00:04:34 · answer #10 · answered by sheepherder 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋