The English and the Celts - no genocide?

[ambrosius]

Gildas, writing in the early 6th c. does not give one single hint that the Saxons drove either British or Christians before them to the West. Whereas he clearly speaks of hard times and occupying saxons, he never accuses them of persecuting Christians. Instead, he confirms that the British still have a functioning clerical organisation, more than half a century after the point where some want to see a Saxon wave of immigrants driving all before them. Gildas never ever indicates that the Britons or the Christian Britons have been driven from vast trackts of the east.

Why Robert! And you've just got done telling us all that Gildas must
have been wrong when he tells us exactly that thing! Didn't you just
complain that archaeology supposedly doesn't support Gildas's claim
that Britons were driven into exile in the West after their cities were
destroyed by fire? Now you're trying to cofuse us all. 8)

Of course, Britain would not be the only place where Christian, under pressure of pagans, reverted back to paganism.

Ah, but you've no evidence for that in post-Roman Britain; do you. 8)
And there was me thinking it would be much harder than that :!:
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Ambrosius / Mike[/quote]