Whenever I have seen modern 'druids' interviewed, they deny any association between their faith and human sacrifice, claiming that the one contemporary source we have on the druids, Caesar, was lying for propaganda purposes. Which seems slightly odd given it wasn't that long since the Romans had themselves gone in for human sacrifice. I've seen similar attempts made more recently, to deny the existence of cannibalism, claiming that it was only a Western attempt to demonise tribal cultures - all this in the face of copious evidence to the contrary. In both cases, people are complaining about a supposed Western moral hegemony demonising other cultures - but doing so by themselves bowing to that hegemony, in that they are attempting to prove that said cultures never breached fashionable Western morals in the first place. And that, quite frankly, is beneath contempt.
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Date: 2007-07-07 01:26 pm (UTC)In both cases, people are complaining about a supposed Western moral hegemony demonising other cultures - but doing so by themselves bowing to that hegemony, in that they are attempting to prove that said cultures never breached fashionable Western morals in the first place.
And that, quite frankly, is beneath contempt.