16th October 2008, 02:36 PM
Posted by oldgirl:
Posted by RedEarth:
Quote:quote:I'll back you on that!!Hooray! That means that Paulo-Astrianism now has a follower, which means I am becoming a religion.
Posted by RedEarth:
Quote:quote:On a serious note, I do think it's quite insulting to consider such requests in the same way musuems might consider those made by native Americans or Australian Aborignes.Quite. Although in many cases in the US, due to 19th century displacements being fossilised in the modern reservation system, present-day native American populations in any given area may not be descended from the archaeological populations found in their territory. There is still, however, a world of difference between a broad native American continuity of belief systems - and an entirely made-up (post-Enlightenment) religion such as that of modern-day Druids.