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It use to be real. A lot of people don't want to hear this but there were European tribes that honored their dead by eating them, but only if they died a natural death. It was a way of giving back, and living on with the tribe. Lots of European tribes engaged, also, in human sacrifice for religious purposes. That's why christianity was progressive. Under christianity literal sacrifice was no longer necessary. It became a symbolic gesture, and a lot of people thought that was better. History doesn't really repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
Christians have a well documented history of making things like that up about their enemies (especially pagans). There's nothing European about cannibalism.
That just not true, and it's not even something that isn't still practiced. Corpse medicine was a thing in the 19th century, we also have Vlad the impaler who would dip bread in the blood of his enemies. Prince Charles, who is a descendant of Vlad Dracula, probably engages in ritual cannibalism. That doesn't even include pre-christian religions. It's an unsavory topic, pun intended, but it certainly wasn't nonexistent in Europe three thousand years ago.
Corpse medicine was a thing in the 19th century
A brief medical fad hardly establishes a persistant tradition. By the same logic we could point out that the people practicing corpse medicine were christian, and therefore cannibalism is a christian trait.
we also have Vlad the impaler who would dip bread in the blood of his enemies
Based, but hardly cannibalism. More like a badass symbolic gesture
Citation needed. There's all kinds of shit made up about him.
Same problem: He was christian. If he establishes cannibalism as a european tradition then he also establishes it as a christian tradition.
Prince Charles, who is a descendant of Vlad Dracula,
All nobility are distantly interrelated. Are you seriously suggesting he inherited some kind of vampire gene because he's 33rd cousins 10 times removed?
probably engages in ritual cannibalism.
"Probably." I'd love to see you back that one up.
but it certainly wasn't nonexistent in Europe three thousand years ago.
"It wasn't nonexistant" is so broad it's meaningless. Even if one person does something in a three thousand year period then "it wasn't nonexistant."
A lot of people don't want to hear this but there were European tribes that honored their dead by eating them
There's some evidence of some neolithic peoples doing this, yes. They're not strongly related to modern europeans.
That's why christianity was progressive
Not really. Literal sacrifice had already been on the wane for centuries before christianity and the evidence for human sacrifice by that point is fairly scant. Mostly Romans talking about their enemies, which is a bit like concluding Iran is making nuclear weapons because CNN said so. Christianity wasn't progressive, it hopped on the bandwagon.
There is still cannibalism in Africa, captain.
We don’t compare ourselves to africans
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