This has to be my favorite headline of the week, month, maybe the year.

Hell, we episcopals will accept gay bishops but NO DRUIDS.

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/10103001.htm

I understand they've resigned their Druid titles.

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perhaps the worst part is the praying to

or maybe the "holding trees" bit

And i thought this was going to be another Dungeons and Dragons thread...

Funny. They don't look Druish.

Eh, pre christian Rhiannon
(yes, ala the Fleetwood Mac song)
was the guardian of hansel & gretel

post christian, Rhiannon ends up cooking hansel and gretel....

guess it all depends on the publicity...

Hal

And I just read that it cooked the goose of the priests - he had to resign from his church.

Nobody has a sense of humor anymore.

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Like "a preacher, a priest and a rabbi walk into a bar?"

I sorta like the old Emo Phillips routine -

• Preacher in a small midwest town sees a man who has stopped his car, climbed up the beams of a bridge and is ready to jump.
  
  Preacher- "Hey, don't jump- god cares"
  Jumper- No he doesn't, why should I listen to you?
  
  Preacher- "Well, if there IS a God, it just doesn't look good if you jump without at least listening to a man of the cloth."
  Jumper- ok, you've got a point- so tell me why I shouldn't jump!
  
  Preacher "Well, I'll bet you believe in God, in some form, and if I'm right, I'd ask you to come down a step"
  Jumper- yes I believe in god- takes 1 step down so he's lower on the beam
  
  Preacher "Well, you don't have an accent so I'll assume you're from around here" Correct?
  Jumper- Yes - hey, that doesn't count for step
  
  Preacher "Ok, I'll bet you're Christian" step down
  Jumper Yes, I am -takes a step down
  
  Preacher "And I bet you're a member of one of the local churches aren't you?"
  Jumper- Yes - takes a step down.
  
  Preacher "And, the lord tells me, you're a member of the national Bretheren congregation"
  Jumper- Yes, I am - takes a step down
  
  Preacher "And, I further believe that you're a member of our Northern State Council of the faith"
  Jumper- hey- you're good, I am- takes a step down
  
  Preacher "Northern council, so then you're Eastern district?"
  Jumper- yes, eastern district - steps down to the top of the railing
  
  Preacher "Believer in the First Eccumenical Council?"
  Jumper- amazing, yes first eccumenical council - steps down to the sidewalk
  
  Preacher "Second Eccumenical Council"
  Jumper- yes Second Eccumenical Council
  
  Preacher "Creed of 1826?"
  Jumper- No oh, Council of 1827
  Preacher "1827?!?! Council of 1827? ? DIE HERETIC!!!"
  and pushes him off the bridge..

(I just walked out to the corner store, and saw a classic "Yogi Berra" line - There was a fork in the road, no I didn't stop and pick it up...)



But back to a good theological puzzle-

If you're married or baptized by an invalid priest or deacon,
is that marriage or baptism also invalid?

If it is still valid, why did you need the minister in the first place?


Hal

I think that if the person/people truly believe that the minister or priest was valid, then their marriage or baptism is still valid. Truth to that, anyone?

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They may also look into becoming Unitarian-Universalists. I met a gentleman the other day who is Unitarian who told me that his congregation once had a pastor who was a "self-proclaimed atheist." The congregation was fine with that, apparently, because he believed in humanistic principles and was tolerant of people in the congregation expressing their beliefs as they saw fit.

Interesting...

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It is true ... plenty of Unitarian-Universalists are atheists, agnostics, Druids, Buddists, and just about anything else. Lots are socialists or communists, nearly all are Democrats, and half the clergy is gay.

But they somehow have a veneer of respectability.