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   XPost: alt.religion.druid   
   From: nospam@this.addy   
      
   Robert Peffers wrote:   
   >   
   > The fake modern Druids all follow on the fake fads for such things in   
   > the 1800s. There is no actual basis for the fads.   
      
   The fake modern Druids certainly do. Most of them engage in relatively   
   harmless forms of dress-up and role-play with the spiritual equivalent of   
   a visit to Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle, whereas the two you're   
   addressing are an entirely different breed yet.   
      
   The resurgence of pre-Abrahamic religious values over the past fourty   
   years in the 'West' has also become a safe haven for all kinds of kooks   
   who now try to hide their same old ultra-orthodox supremacist ideology   
   by wrapping themselves in a "druidic" cloak.   
      
   There are, however, very few modern Druids who still adhere to the   
   traditional, i.e. way pre-1800s values and tenets. One of those tenets is   
   the principle of lip-to-ear or oral tradition, which means as soon as you   
   find someone spouting their alleged wisdom all over the Internet or by   
   way of publishing books, you know you've got a fake right there.   
      
   HTH   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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