Why did the Romans hate Druids so much?

They are the jack of all trades class, Romans were min-maxers

Have you read how cruel and inhumane Celtic human sacrifices were? The druids used to cut open a man and "read" the future from his screams, his death-agony, and the way his guts spilled on the earth.

The same Romans who burned Christians on sticks actually banned Celtic druid practices within the Roman Empire because of (and I quote) "excessive cruelty". The only religion the Romans banned altogether next to Christianity.

>inb4 hurr Roman lies and propaganda, >muh_romantic_warped_vision.jpg is obviously more credible.

J. A. MacCulloch. "The Religion of the Ancient Celts -

sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/rac/rac19.htm

Probably because they were unruly and didnt pay taxes.

>Why did the Romans hate Druids so much?
Why do americans hate the talebans?
Because they incite the locals against the foreign invaders.

Bullshit decks. Just glad they can't combo out 16 damage so easily anymore

According to the Romans, violent rituals and human sacrifice. Which justification was almost certainly propaganda. They needed some kind of moral rallying point, so why not that?

At the same time, moderns' saccharine idealization of pre-christian religion is laughably naive. The druidic cultures were almost certainly cruel beyond measure, by our standards. You'd be hard-pressed to find any successful culture that wasn't.

>these people were sociopaths who practiced horribly cruel and insane witchcraft on a massive level t. their enemies
every time

They didn't, they liked a great deal of aspects of them, they just didn't like them putting criminals in wicker men.

Once the Celts were Roman and Celtic religion became a facet of Roman Hellenism, there was no reason to be a 'druid' unless you wanted to cruelly execute people. So it was banned.

it was all just banter lads

>whaaaaaa human sacifices are mean

Same sort of people who bitch about the Aztecs.

>according to the tenants of cultural relativism it's not repugnant to please the elder gods by killing people in the worst possible ways :^)

Do you have ANY evidence that the sacrificial victims were criminals?

it was 14

>Culture that are famous for its blood sports disliked some forest people because they occasionally burned people alive

What

>They literally fucking put people in dome-shaped coliseums and force them to kill each other/fed them to lions, what's not to hate about it

Same could be applied to abrahamic faiths. Most religions/cultures are shitty like that.

The Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar, Book 6, Chapter 16.
>They consider that the oblation of such as have been taken in theft, or in robbery, or any other offense, is more acceptable to the immortal gods.

Because they had significant political power as spiritual leaders and wouldn't play nice with the Romans. The Romans, being an eminently practical people, decided to solve this seemingly intractable problem by killing all of them.

It subverted the authority of the Roman state. Celts were fanatically loyal to druid authority, and if they had to choose between following a Roman edict or a druid, thy'll follow the druid.

So Rome decided to kill them all.

It's similar to why they disliked the Jewish priesthood too, whose persecution by the Roman state gave rise to Rabbanic tradition instead.

>why would the Romans want to wipe out the Celtic Brahmin?

I wonder.