| I know this is going to be difficult for you to hear | | | | claim to the European lands, this is the era where |
| (or it may be meaningless to you), but I ask that | | | | the Anglo-Saxon Germanic tribes (self-declared |
| you hear me out. Regardless what you may have | | | | "white" people) were invading the European |
| been taught, Celtic people are no more a part of | | | | continent (and were declaring white supremacy |
| the white people community than Jews are. In | | | | even as far back as this - if you didn't get |
| fact, their history as a people is strikingly similar to | | | | conquered and slaughtered by them, then you |
| Jewish history - to include the modern | | | | were expected to become absorbed into the |
| inter-societal problems existing today in both | | | | "white" culture and give up your ethnic identity - |
| nations. It's been awhile since I've studied Celtic | | | | hence, the eventual creation of the term "WASP |
| history, so dates wise I'll attempt to be | | | | - white anglo saxon protestant"). |
| somewhere in the general ball park. But, here is a | | | | By this 5th century CE time period, the Celtic |
| little of the history. The Celtic languages (Irish, | | | | people had already given up their warrior lifestyle |
| Scottish) are offshoots of African tribal languages. | | | | for the literary, and were attempting to educate |
| And, before settling in Europe, the Celtic people | | | | the warrior tribes that were entering their lands. |
| lived in the Middle East (@ 6 BCE). The Celts were | | | | But, far too many Anglo-Saxons were coming |
| a powerful group of warrior tribes that conquered | | | | into the land and there intent was to conquer |
| lands as they moved west toward, first, the | | | | rather than be proselytized. These invading tribes |
| Greek empire and then, eventually, Europe. | | | | learned what the Celts had to teach them very |
| Somewhere around the end of the 4th century | | | | well (thus became proselytized, nevertheless) and, |
| BCE, the Celts invaded the Greek empire and | | | | then, used this very teaching for their crusades |
| originated the country now known as Turkey. | | | | against Israel, Spain and, ultimately, (being |
| In the Greco-Roman Christian bible the Celts of | | | | unsuccessful with those campaigns) against Ireland |
| Turkey were referred to as the Galatians, who | | | | (unfortunately, they devasted the Celts and |
| the first Christian missionaries (seven centuries | | | | turned them into slaves). To this very day, the |
| later) tried to Christianize very unsuccessfully. The | | | | Irish and Scottish people are fighting for their |
| word Galatian in the Christian bible is a very close | | | | independence from the Anglo-Saxons, and it |
| approximation of what the Celts of Turkey called | | | | doesn't help that the Irish are still having inter-tribal |
| themselves. Having still yet the nomadic nature, | | | | conflicts like there ancestors of so many |
| descendants of the Turkish Celts moved on from | | | | centuries before (protestants versus catholics, this |
| Turkey and eventually settled in Europe, finally | | | | is what they call it now). And, then came the |
| settling in Ireland (@ 350 BCE). It would not be | | | | modern plague that nearly wiped out the Gaelic |
| until the fall of Rome and Greece around 5 CE | | | | speaking Irish natives of Ireland (@ 19 CE). But, |
| (approximately 900 year later), that the Irish | | | | fortunately for the world Celtic culture is on the |
| Celts would take an interest in Christian literature. | | | | rebound, the history is being remembered, and |
| And, if the Irish people had not taken this literary | | | | the native languages are still being spoken and |
| interest, then Christianity would have become an | | | | taught (they now have schools for this purpose in |
| extinct religion. For an understanding of this time | | | | Ireland). |
| period, 9 centuries after the Celtic people had laid | | | | |