Posted on 04/17/2005 1:52:53 PM PDT by Willie Green
DOWNINGTOWN, Pa. -- An Episcopal priest has renounced his ordination to lead a Druid order.
W. William Melnyk, former rector of St. James Episcopal Church in Downingtown, Chester County, called his decision to become a Druid priest "a joyous occasion."
Melnyk has formed the Llynhydd Grove of the Druid Order of the Yew, which he will lead under his Druid name, OakWyse.
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Looks like another Episcopalian has turned conservative.
LOL, traditional anyway.
So9
--Henry VIII has turned over in his grave---
At last, a straight forward Episopal priest! And I bet he didn't compare himself as the equal of Jesus either.
He isn't a little fish in a big pond any more.
A fellow Orthodox Christian here in Kansas, whose undergrad degree is in medieval history, like to as 'druids' when they last performed a human sacrifice, or at least when they last sacrificed a deer. When they can't come up with an occasion for either, he tells them they're not druids.
Sometimes you really have to wonder if some in the clergy really believe in God or if they are just going through the motions to bring home a paycheck.
Sometimes you really have to wonder if some in the clergy really believe in God or if they are just going through the motions to bring home a paycheck.
I suspect in this case that the Episcopalians pay better.
LOL!!!!
This guy is a liar and a backtracker of the likes of clinton himself!!! Less than a year ago, he told the ECUSA (and the press) that he had "repented" of his apostasy, and had returned to the faith of the Holy Christian Church. Now he's a Druid again!
What is it in the ECUSA that makes Druidism so popular? We Lutherans have many, many problems, weaknesses, and temptations, but almost never that one!
They've driven so many of the faithful out they don't have much of an anchor anymore, I suspect. Personally, I only expect it will get worse before the "boot."
But the faithful in the worldwide Anglican Communion still have more work to do. It's not clear to me what the status of the Archbishop of Canterbury is with regards to his being Druid, but that's another mess needs cleaning up. Fortunately he's not a pope.
The eugenicists would have gotten a blast out of wicker man burnings. All those deformed people being burned alive.
Weren't there Celtic soothsayers who would try to predict the future by the thrashings of strangled victims? One girl I met at a Jesuit university claimed to be into Celtic paganism, and when I asked her if she did such things she said it would be illegal. Guess she didn't have the courage of her convictions.
"It's not clear to me what the status of the Archbishop of Canterbury is with regards to his being Druid, but that's another mess needs cleaning up."
You know, I've seen him called the "Arch Druid" but always thought it was a joke. Is there a possibly serious origin to this?
There is and it's serious, but it's too much for me to deal with this evening.
The gentleman would have done better to examine more succintly the relation between Christianity and Druidism, the only two religions eve banned outright by Pagan Rome.
Some scholars have come to very interesting and little realised hypotheses regarding the proto-Israelite nature of the Druid faith. The druids did in effect, worship Christ by name centuries before His blessed birth, and were very probably related to the lost ten tribes of Israel.
The Druids mimicked, in many ways, the worship service of the Patriarchs of the Old Testament. As such the early religious history of Britain, and much of our current English language, civility, socioeconomic mores and especially monarchial traditions are uniquely similar to those of the Children of Israel ( n.b. not the Jews ).
The druids represent a unique and interesting example in early English religions and an importantstudy in the sum programme of pan-Anglodavidicism.
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