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Post by Scruffy Brooky on Oct 12, 2010 18:26:24 GMT
Slightly old news, but I have been moving house and this is a brand new forum! Druids have been given charitable staus by The Charity Commission: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11457795What does anyone make of this decision? Also what do we as Pagans make of the Daily Mail's typically non-confrontational inclusive stand point on it?? www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1317490/Druids-official-religion-Stones-Praise-come.htmlIn all fairness I think the Mail are out of order, but it just wouldn't matter to me if someone else attacked my belief system / religion / faith (whatever you choose to call it). I am very secure in what I believe and the benefits I perceive I gain from it. Anyone else's assessment is pretty redundant to me. What does anyone else make of it?
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Post by Scruffy Brooky on Oct 31, 2010 23:14:33 GMT
Strange to note the BBC seem to have dragged this up again on their website because its 31st October.
I hate appear paranoid but it does seem to smack of an agenda...
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Post by watergypsy on Nov 9, 2010 16:54:02 GMT
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Post by Scruffy Brooky on Nov 16, 2010 0:13:33 GMT
I don't know... Its just if you've already reported it, why repeat it verbatim at Samhain? To the rest of country its Hallowe'en. i.e. commercialised Hammer Horror non-sense. It seems to me that to repeat the story without reason, at Hallowe'en will at best undermine Pagan's integrity in the mind of the man on the street. At worst it will cause people to think there is something sinister (in the common usage sense, rather than the literal left hand path) about what they're up to, to the superstitious mind. They seem to have given credibility with one hand and taken it away with the other to me!
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