Officially druidism is now a religion - if youre in this spiritual arena what are you

http://www.telegram.com/article/20101003/NEWS/10030383/1052/RSS01&source=rss
I have mixed feelings - Its one of the branches of spirituality I have a lot of respect for but why become a religion/ whats so great about being accessible? Do you think it might succumb to being corruptible now

Yea, i never played dungeons and dragons. sorry.

Officially, "Jedi" is a religion.

So what?

BTW, Druids were around before Christians, not that it matters.

Good for the Druids I say

I for one think it's nice. I like druidism, they are cool.

Tis a shame the Romans killed them all so they could not unify the tribes of Britain against them. Modern druidism is only re constructionist.

the first thought that came to mind, was the cartoon.. Astrix and Oblelix.. and their druid Getafix... Hohenlohe.... "Getafix.. Bahama.. get it?"

Great news. Now all the 'hippies' at Stonehenge will have benefits that the big churches have had for hundreds of years, egg tax free status.

The only news that would make me happier, would be the FSM being granted the same status... don't laugh, it makes as much sense, and it's followers are growing fast.

What do you mean, 'now a religion'? Druidism's been a religion for millennial.

I've always seen it as a religion. I think it's the patriarchal bits of Celtic paganism which have been revived, possibly artificially though i don't know enough about the details of its history. That is, there may be a gap in the tradition, which makes it rather like the Cornish language. It does need to be acknowledged that there were patriarchal elements in the supposedly "right-on" religions, so that's quite positive in a way. What i don't get is how Rowan Williams fits into this because he's officially a Druid.

I just recently became interested in druidism as a result of a recent article on the Internet. I did some research and found that it is mostly people who like to play dress up. I love nature and I always sense a connection to it when I am out in the woods but I do not need to dress like its Halloween and do silly rituals. Druids today are not actually druids but they base their conception on what they think druids were like 500 years ago. There is a good article in Wikipedia called Neo-Druidism.

druid ..what?

druidism has been a religion for centuries, if you study history you will know that in the 4Th century AD the Romans tried to wipe them out on Anglesea

The change is status is primarily about the bureaucracy and what's required of an organization which receives money from others.

This article isn't loading for me, but one I saw earlier made it clear that the particular organization's income was low enough that tax-exempt status wasn't much of a benefit.

I doubt that very little will change. Though the BBC is probably more likely to invite King Arthur Pendragon onto one of its religious diversity pro grammes now.

Druidism has been a religion for centuries, to days Druids are a watered down set, after all human sacrifice is now illegal, and they used to cut out people entrails while they were alive to for cast coming events. well at least I hope it's watered down.

I was not aware that druidism was a spiritual concept.
I thought that druids were the medicine men for the trials.