Oh no...oh please no

[vartan]

The book I read stated that writing was explicitly against Celtic religion, because the Celts felt that keeping written records would dull their memorization ability. The Celts did write things on occasion, but when they did they wrote in Latin or Greek and they did not write down any of their religious stories, histories, or anything like that.

They felt this way not because they thought, but because they knew that records dull memory. My father used to be able to recall over 500 contact records. Now we have electronic phonebooks. His father before him recalled his own written texts. Those before him recalled whole texts, not their own.

[Tuuvi]

Yes you're right. When I used the word "felt" I wasn't trying to imply that they were wrong, if that's what you're thinking.