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I saw this headline on the Yahoo news page: "Druidry recognized as official religion in Britain."
I thought to myself, finally those people in the UK have realized that Christianity was the wrong way to go. But of course the headline was misleading and this is the story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101002/lf_afp/britainreligionlawdruidsoffbeat
A shame really, the Druids I've read about seemed to be a simple folk, closer to the Earth than other religions. I like the idea of sharing simple ideas, it allows room for personal thought.
I don't see the mass of negativity in the Christian UK that I do here in the US. Maybe it's because you folks across the pond have been living with it longer than us, you also happen to be more civilized. I can only agree with Timmy's assessment that the Christians here seem to have more in common with the Taliban every day.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. (Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626)
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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We seem to have a far healthier attitude to religion here. But we've been at it a good few centuries more than the USA. We seem more adult, the USA is just hitting puberty. We do have pockets of religious stridency. This seems to be mainly historical and is generally christian sect against sect, protestant against catholic.
I don't have the history to say why the sects fight, and I don't suppose it goes back to Henry VIII (Not one of Michael Arram's stories!). We were pretty vicious then, burning one flavour or the other at the stake.
I'm not really sure about druidry. It's arrived just in time to make the next UK census in 2010 more interesting, at least. But do not mistake a pantheistic religion for a gay friendly one. We must see what it says about us rather than taking it in trust.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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