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   XPost: soc.culture.scottish, soc.culture.irish, soc.culture.british   
   XPost: alt.religion.druid   
   From: nospams@least.invalid   
      
   Akins of that Ilk wrote:   
   > On May 9, 1:11 pm, "1X2Willows" wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>> There are, however, very few modern Druids who still adhere to the   
   >>>> traditional, i.e. way pre-1800s values and tenets.   
   >>   
   >>> Ah, for the "good old days":   
   >>   
   >> [irrelevant links and quotes snipped]   
   >>   
   >> The good old days I'm referring to are to be found around the   
   >> mid-5th C. CE, when a Roman incursion induced schism in the druidic   
   >> community led to the Culdees splitting off and going their own   
   >> monotheist way from then on, which in turn resulted in all those   
   >> colorful manuscripts out of Ireland you supremacist idiots take for   
   >> the real thing.   
   >>   
   >> "Horned God" my ass   
   >   
   > You mean the Book of Kells? Its was actually produced in what is now   
   > Scotland, on Iona. St. Patrick wasn't Irish either, he was born in   
   > that part of what is now Scotland that was, in his day, the kingdom of   
   > the Britons of Strathclyde.   
      
      
   Not only the Book of Kells but the whole monastic scripture which   
   you base your invented, pseudo-druidic religion on.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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