Faith & Reason: The people's instinct for natural signs One of the few fundamental Druid tenets is that nature is sacred.Christians, who regard this belief as close to idolatry, have a more complex relationship with the material world

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: June 20, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

IT WILL be fun at Stonehenge tomorrow: for the first time in nine years, assorted Druids and Pagans will be allowed to celebrate in its precincts the summer solstice. The Gorsedd will be performed, "one of Britain's oldest religious ceremonies" (I quote from no less a source than the Independent). Thus we will be reconnected across the centuries with the gentle nature religion of our pre-Christian ancestors. Or perhaps not.

Historians agree that we actually know very little about the religion of the various Celtic peoples who inhabited these islands before the Romans arrived. We know that ...

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