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3/3/2008
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WFU Professor Says Celtic Christianity Is Unique Religion
Author: Wake Forest University Source: Wake Forest University News (NC)
Title: WFU PROFESSOR SAYS CELTIC CHRISTIANITY IS UNIQUE RELIGION
As St. Patrick’s Day approaches, the legend will be retold of how the Christian missionary Patrick banished all the snakes from Ireland. However, zoologists say there never were snakes in Ireland, and historians suggest that the snakes refer instead to the druids, who had their own non-Christian religion. Over time the Christian church incorporated elements of the druids’ traditions into its own religious practices in Ireland.
Linda McKinnish Bridges, professor of ministry studies in the Wake Forest Divinity School, teaches the students in her Celtic Christianity class about the unique blend of Christianity with indigenous religions such as druidism found in Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Bridges says that in those countries, Christianity was assimilated peacefully rather than through violence.
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web
"Culture carries no priviledge to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without. I submit, for your consideration, the Imperial Order." - Kahlan Amnell, Terry Goodkind's "Soul of the Fire"
My sentiments about certain death cults that are Middle Eastern in origin.
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| Good Article | Mar 3rd. at 9:18:53 pm EST
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Art MacAilein (Radcliff, Kentucky) - Email Me
More Pagans, especially those with an interest in the pre-Christian Gaels, need to know the truth behind the Gaelic conversion to Christianity. After all, Christianity has been the chosen faith of the Gaelic people for at least 1,500 years. One cannot show proper respect for the living Gaelic communities and the traditions they maintain without understanding and respecting the religion that has shaped those traditions since the fourth century.
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| Idealized Version Of Events | Mar 3rd. at 5:59:42 pm EST
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Rubyglare (Sacramento, California) - Email Me
"Bridges, herself a descendent of Irish immigrants to Appalachia, first turned her attention to Celtic Christianity in 1997, as she sought ways to defend women in leadership positions in the increasingly conservative Southern Baptist Convention. She focused on the leadership of Brigid, a nun in Ireland in the fifth century renowned for her devotion to the poor. Brigid founded the convent at Kildare, and is one of the most-loved saints of all Christianity. Over time, her legend became entwined with tales of the Irish Goddess Brighid, another example of the assimilation of Christianity with the existing pagan traditions.
Bridges says that in those countries, Christianity was assimilated peacefully rather than through violence. “From the fifth through the 10th centuries the two faiths mixed easily, creating an egalitarian, monastic community that was open to pre-Christian myth, accepting of the notion that deity was revealed through sacred landscape,” she says. Today remnants of the druidic tradition remain within the practice of Christianity in Ireland."
Yet she forgets those ancient trees, years older than her Christianity, were all chopped down; there was 1 on the southeastern area of Ireland, so big they built stages around them & would dance on them.
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"It is harsh, indeed, to say, as Dr. Ledwich does in his Antiquities of Ireland, after quoting a list by Ware and Keating--"It savours, as all Irish MSS. do, of modern forgery." But no student of history can exempt the annals of Ireland from the charge of misrepresentation of facts, or absolute invention of falsehoods. Prof. Harttung, who considered the old Irish "a distinctly unhistorical and unsettled people," has this opinion of their ancient literature--"Imagination and the works of scholars, especially after the tenth century, supplied that which was painfully wanting in actuality."
No better illustration can be given than the remarkable series of books on the lives of St. Patrick and St. Columba. One's faith is tried thereby to the uttermost, leading not a few to deny the very existence of the two missionaries. That early Irish literature was afterwards much corrupted may be admitted, without throwing doubt upon all records because of interpolations and changes, through indiscreet zeal, or love of the marvellous."
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| ... | Mar 3rd. at 5:43:31 pm EST
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web
The last time I checked, Darth Patrick ended up inciting people to riot against the Druids. Then again, truth is something obscured by history.
I mean, what's next? The Vatican lying about how many people they killed when the Inquisition had a free hand and atheist hecklers buying such a lie?
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| Wish This Was More Popular | Mar 3rd. at 3:04:31 pm EST
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Nocturnal Light (Camp Humphreys, Kansas) - Email Me
This is a good example that Neopaganism and nondogmatic Christianity can flow in harmony. It seems alot more like the Christianity originally taught by Jesus (in both the Biblical and Gnostic gospels) in that it stresses community and acceptance of one another. Too bad it got taken over by Catholic Church Inc.
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