druids get charity status

[billy]

The Druid Network, which has about 350 members, sought charitable status for "the advancement of religion for public benefit and no other purpose," the commission said in its ruling. source:

i seriously thought thousand of people were following druidism.
isn't there a religion for jedi as well.

[addy]

Well, they did say it was just the members of the Druid Network (which from what I understood is just an organization in England, and even then not all self-proclaimed druids are necessarily members). As the article said, there are many more practicioners in other countries. I think its fair that they be able to organize themselves as a church without prejudice under the law. Hell, I can't believe scientology was legal before this

[mrmod]

Yet the church of Scientology doesn't have the same status as the druids now. They are an official church.

It's all a bit too bureaucratic to me .

[DUBLIN5]

eh: i would take that as a joke,some religion

[billy]

Yet the church of Scientology doesn't have the same status as the druids now. They are an official church.

It's all a bit too bureaucratic to me .

at least the druids have been practising what they believed in for centuries maybe millenia. (is that a 1000 years ?)
they have what one could call reasonable gods or deities. are the wickens an offshoot of the druids?

scientology is just a money making scheme that was concieved as a bet, and a plot for a book.

[billy]

eh: i would take that as a joke,some religion

don't forget the irish celts were druidic in their beliefs dubs.
in a way weren't they a bit like the native american indians who belived in the earth and sky and water etc.