Druidism has just been officially announced as an official religion in the UK - but i

Druidism has been officially recognized in the UK (what took it so long!). But many Christians are skeptical, why are Christians so hostile towards this new move, especially American Christians.

Answer me this, why does Christianity have to incorporate pagan rituals within it's religion? IE trinity, Christ's birth on Christmas day, winter solstice rituals (Christmas trees etc), Pagan Easter celebrations, the worship of Mary (Mother Earth worship).
I think you Christians are more pagan than you think! Plus many old European churches are actually built on top of old Pagan sites. One old ancient church in the Isles of Hebrides even has a Celtic Sheela Na Gig altar in the church!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheela_na_Gig

Christianity is by definition not pagan, although in practice many pagan rituals have been incorporated into Christian celebrations.

Winston Churchill was a druid:

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/codex_magica/images/codex_101.jpg

Hypocritical, 'Ti's true.

Wonder how many Christians have heard of Mithras?

And how many will deny it when they do?

'Christianity' is a heathen religion. It does not follow scripture, or the Savior YAHUSHUA.

Yes, about 90% of Christianity has pagan origins.

But before you start calling the kettle black, name me a completely original religion--Pagan, Druid, whatever-- that didn't borrow ideas and practices from others.

Nothing's wrong with the borrowing and exchange of ideas and customs. We do it all the time, everyday. America is a country made entirely of exchanged, borrowed, and shared ideas, customs, cultures and religions.

You know you wouldn't want it any other way.

So stop whining.

Christianity is not Paganism, it was stolen from the ancient Pagan religions, that is why there's so many contradicts and lies and hypocrisy in it.
Christian's are hostile towards it because to them their beloved lie is the only "true" religion. Hate is what they're taught to believe in and preach. It is not normal.
It is my belief that the churches are built on old Pagan sites for the power that they contain..prayers are energy..thoughts are energy..think about it..
The holiday's were done on purpose to replace ours in order to convert people to Christianity..our ancestors were not too keen to give up their Pagan traditions for this crap, can't say I blame them either.
It is ridiculous..

Just goes to show how insidious evil is, and how God warns us even using very ancient history, of Satan's continual false reflection in the mirror of a Holy God's divine plans. Throughout all history, the spirit of Antichrist attempts to copy everything God does and will do, but its only shadows of the reality of Jesus Christ and the Holiness of a Living God. The actual and final Antichrist gets killed and "dies" for three days then appears to rise from the dead. Comes in the "clouds". Has a false "prophet". You name it, he attempts it. And you were saying....?

As far as Sheela Na gig's, old ways die hard. But they did die out. Jesus is still the vibrant Living Word of God today.

And besides, hey, we've got our own cults to battle over here. You keep yours, and we will, unfortunately, keep ours. You've got your burdens from God, we've got ours. Would you rather have Mormonism or druidism? Choose ye this day your cult.....

There is only one officially recognized religion in the UK - Anglican Christianity. Druidism is officially recognized as a religion in the Republic of Ireland, not in the UK. I am Wiccan, and my religion isn't officially recognized as such here in the UK either, not even on the Census form.

As Alice so correctly says, Christianity cannot by definition be pagan ('a person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions' OED 2010) but it does incorporate various pagan devices & rituals.

I'd like to add to your list the fertility symbols of eggs & hares associated with the Anglo-Saxon, Nordic, & Western European fertility goddess named Eostre, whose springtime festival was stolen by the Christians & imaginatively renamed 'Easter'. A genius move on their part, no-one will ever notice what they did there...

The Old Testament hugely plagiarized Mesopotamian myth (Gilgamesh = Flood myth; Origin of Sargon of Akkad = Moses' origin; other gods stolen & added to pantheon like Beelzebub, the flying serpents named the seraphic, & the many-headed bull/eagle/lion/human-bodied cherubim which are the two highest orders of angels are taken directly from Sumerian & Babylonian pantheons).

It's common practice for religions to take from other mythologies & claim that narrative material as its own. The reason the Roman Empire was so famous for this was that it didn't make any secret of this behavior until it became the Roman Catholic Church.

Paganism is belief in a god other than the Judeo-Christian one.

Certain concepts and rituals were altered and retained because they belonged to the people who converted and they contained truth. So for example the concept of the harvest festival - yes something existed already but it was right that it existed. It is right that we thank God for a good harvest, only not a made up god - the real One.

When Christianity came along it only corrected what it saw as false in paganism; it didn't try to change everything solely for the sake of changing it.

Bemused reaction perhaps. Apparently druids worship thunder and other aspects of nature. I find that a bit silly, myself, since we definitely know what thunder is through science, it isn't a god, it is due to the sound wave when electrical charges in the skies pass to the earth's surface during a lightning strike ! Of non-christian beliefs Buddhism, Confucianism, Islam, Sikhism and Bahai seem far far more credible to me. But hey, people can believe whatever they want as far as they aren't hurting others.

The Trinity doctrine is a consequence of reasoning based upon many Bible passages egg John 14-17.

The catholic church had a policy of adapting pagan practices to make people feel more comfortable with converting. In those days the barbarian kings often choose their people's religion, so the king might choose Christianity, but people might still feel the emotional hold of old beliefs, so this policy of adopting some non-criticati cal pagan practices was used. They may have just been following typical Roman practice, since the Romans behaved in this way when they were building their Empire - the Papacy was based in Rome and bishops were often Roman aristocrats. I'm not saying it's right policy. It's one thing the protestants dropped as a corruption, even though the catholics went on doing it in places like Mexico and South America.