Mythology isn't tradition and history - it's modern invention designed to take the place of authentic tradition and history.
So I’m with you, comrade. Tear down that historical POS and put a strip mall on it.
No one's tearing it down.
S___ on those Irish kings, what did they ever do but guide and shepherd a people who made a great impact on the World, for the better.
The kings of Ireland - who usually ruled areas the size of an American county - didn't do a whole lot of "guiding" and "shepherding."
What they did do a lot of was fighting in an endless series of tribal wars and raiding the subjects of the neighboring king and stealing their livestock and other possessions.
The kings of Ireland were such incompetent leaders that only one king in Irish history ever fought a successful battle against a foreign invader. They spent most of their time allying with foreign invaders to get their assistance in killing fellow Irishmen.
When I think of them sitting there, before the first Christian ever came to them, being all smug in their ignorance, I just want to reach back through time and murder them for not knowing the Good News.
The historic reaction of the pre-Christian Irish nobility was to murder the unarmed monks who came to preach the good news to them.
I guess condemning them to hell would be useless since they’d never heard of it.
Interesting theological analysis.
Compassion is another conservative principle.
Let's recap. I'm apparently insufficiently "conservative" because I'm not showing enough "compassion" for a long-dead caste of professional thieves and braggarts.
Fascinating.
Thank you! Its amazing how many Irish Americans WANT their ancestral homeland to be poor and superstitious. You don’t see me mythologizing Jagiellonian Poland or the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies under the Bourbons.