[quidnunc]

There's some romanticizing and historical blindness going on here. The actual druids engaged in human sacrifice, including sticking people inside wicker figures of animals and burning them alive. The desiccated ancient bodies periodically found in peat bogs are probably druid sacrifices.

[Unam Sanctam]

The "Wicker Man" was a great movie.

[Cindy]

Snippet: "Pagans, I discovered during our second pint, are also united by their sense of the injustices done them by Christians. The last 2,000 years of history is a heart-wrenching tale of innocent occult revivals squashed by ignorant Christians"

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Well, how anti-CHRISTian. Some things just never change.

[beckett]

When the pagan looks at the very core of the cosmos he is struck cold. Behind the gods, who are merely despotic, sit the fates, who are deadly. Nay, the fates are worse than deadly; they are dead.

G. K. Chesterton

[Huck]

Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"
Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on"
God say, "No." Abe say, "What?"
God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but
The next time you see me comin' you better run"
Well Abe says, "Where do you want this killin' done?"
God says, "Out on Highway 61."

[Aquinasfan]

And the gods? Once you start seeking they choose you, really.

Mmmm... He's saying more than he realizes.

C.S. Lewis said that the post-Christian society he foresaw would be worse than the pagan age, since the old pagans were ignorant of Christ.