AFP - Druidry recognised as religion in Britain
AFP reports: "Britain has recognised druidry as an official religion for the first time, thousands of years after the Celtic pagan faith emerged in Europe, the country's charity commission said Saturday. The Druid Network, an organisation representing the religion in Britain, was granted charitable status in a decision that not only gives it tax breaks but also lets the religion take its place alongside more mainstream beliefs."
Comment: It's interesting that before archeologists decided that Stonehenge was built by ancient druids, there were no druids in Britain. This modern variant represents an entirely new faith, a trendy amalgam of various pagan and new age beliefs and practices that lack any historical ties to the ancient druids for the same reason that archeologists can't be 100% sure the druids built Stonehenge...there were no written records.
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