Historically speaking why do celts have so much sovl?

They were some of the first in northern europe to adopt christianity and the most ardent in spreading it, and even nowadays ireland is far more christian than its neighbors to the east yet they love larping that christianity was forced on them by the evil invading anglos

There are celtic pagans who unironically spout that the english suppressed the celtic religion

Well they're not wrong that the English suppressed Irish practices of pagan origin, but the Irish who engaged in such practices would have seen themselves as good Catholics and not regarded their own customs as pagan

>But on the road, as we travelled back, the Irish country folk kindled great fires on high mountains every night, with much dancing round the fires by great multitudes both of men and women, with junketings and merrymaking. This is the old custom of the Irish people, which they have observed from the most ancient times, maintaining that all goes better with them if they continue it, than if they should let it drop. This is, as it were, their faith, and though the English have tried to wean them from the custom, and sternly forbidden it, the Irish have obstinately refused to give up their fires and dances, which have become the custom and habit of the countryside.
Memoirs of Jon Olafsson, Icelander and traveller to India, 1622-1625, as written by himself, 1661

people mistake culture for religion.

>Like I said, they're Africa-tier. Celts cope hard by claiming they're some deeply oppressed victim race like the descendants of African slaves. The strategies of coping are extremely similar.

Irish people (as distinct from the diaspora) don't claim to be oppressed by the English as of now and most of us rather like England despite the sore past history. But the comparison between the historic experience of the Irish peasant and the black slave is less absurd than it might seem. See the extracts from foreign observers in this thread:

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The Celts were never defeated as a group. The Gauls were beaten but it took the entire might of Rome, their greatest commander, Germanic adventurers, and other Gauls to bring down greater Gaul at a total of 35% Strength.
The Eastern Britons were defeated in the same manner but despite being outnumbered and facing down the greatest military at the time, they still hammered the Romans in open battle, a feat repeated only by the Goths.
Beyond Southern Britain, the Romans were unable to subdue the Celtic people of the Isles, electing instead to generate a cultural fusion and assimilation by building unassailable forts to protect trade nodes.
>Germanics fought against Christianity
The Norse and Saxons did very early on, but eventually adopted it.
The conversion of Celt, Nordic, and Germanic isn't all that dissimilar.

>Why do celts larp as epic warriors when they were almost always defeated?
Like I said, they're Africa-tier. Celts cope hard by claiming they're some deeply oppressed victim race like the descendants of African slaves. The strategies of coping are extremely similar.

unlike blacks the Celts have a culture of Honor and self sufficiency which leads to giga autists trying to solo Empires with their Tribal retinue and maybe their Uncle Norfs.
Everytime the Romans and Greeks met with the Celts they commented on their ability to punch above their own weight to an extreme degree and found it endearing that such a divided people could be so capable in spite of their division.
If all the Gauls had united The Universe could not stand against them.
Even into the middle ages historically Celtic populations were the most sought out mercenaries.
Look at the Irish or French and tell me Norse or Frankish blood flows through them, they are clearly still a predominantly Celtic population and yet they are among the most influential leaders and conquerors to date.

It's mostly larping, these cultures were mostly destroyed and today are being recreated by University departments and Holywood.

>Also, are these Celtic languages destined to go extinct or is there a real possibility for a revival?
Probable extinction.

extinction is unlikely given the surge in nationalism that will be seen in a few years.
I imagine English will be seen as American and in rebellion against America, the native peoples of Europe will cast down English as a language and uphold their own native tongues.

Scots is a Germanic language

The celts were semi civilised, and that is why they fell
Every roman writer noted that while the gauls (and britons to a lesser extent) were semi civlised, the Germanics were completely wild and uncivilised and that is why they btfo'd the gauls and romans time after time

>Gauls btfo'd the Germans.
nah they cried to rome for help after ariovistus btfo'ed them
Germanic burials featured celtic weaponry because GERMANIC WARRIORS captured them from the celts they defeated

Marbod king of the Marcomanni had a name whose Celtic elements mean "great raven" but whose element in Irish look like they mean "big penis" ("mór" = great, "bod" = penis). Bod mór = big wiener. I reckon Marbod's name was really Great wiener not Great Raven

Gauls are Celtic and both descend (insular and continental) from very late Beakerchads.
The Celtic races of Europe were too brave, too individualistic, too heroic, and all too human, they did not possess the machine-like organization of the Germanic hive, and thus anytime the Celts fought eachother they lost land to more organized groups like Medlets (who were fathered by proto-Celts), land which they only regained if unified, which was rare, while Germanic tribes would funnel in reinforcements from their shared space bugman longhouses and Rome would cower their way forward in open fields out from their proto-pod multiracial villas whenever a GALLIC BVLL would steal a cow or horse or a girl from them.