Druidry

[Quintessence]

Feel free to message me too, @Zwing - I'm not as active anymore but I am trying to put up some bits and pieces in my Journal here - Musings of a Tree Hugging Dirt Worshipper. Most of what I write there will be from a Druid angle because that fits the theme of this web forum though keep in mind since Druidry is non-creedal and non-dogmatic what each Druid writes is very much a reflection of their own tradition.

 

[Quintessence]

To add a brief bit on the theism/atheism - the last entry I wrote in the journal in some ways addresses that. I find the entire alleged binary of "theism" and "atheism" to be utterly useless on so many levels. IMHO, it's worse than utterly useless - it's a red herring, a distraction, a detraction from proper discussions about theology and the gods just in general. A lot of that happened in the English-speaking world because of accidents of history from centuries ago that created something of a cultural hegemony in how we think about both theology and religion. Druidry exists so far outside of that cultural hegemony - it is either explicitly Pagan our in some way countercultural - it does us a disservice to keep ourselves stuck in those ways of thinking.

The big appeal of Druidry for many is that it grounds our experience back in precisely that - the ground. The Earth. And recognizing that relationships with these higher powers (aka, the gods, or whatever you do or don't want to call them) is deeply meaningful because we experience these forces each and every day.

 

[paarsurrey]

Druidry​

Druidry loves nature; isn't " Nature" a creation of G-d, please?

Regards

 

[rocala]

I m a Druid revivalist (although that is not really the term I would use).

As the Hammer said, goes for me too.
Edit - I just noticed that this is not a new thread.

 

[paarsurrey]

Druidry​

Druidry loves nature; isn't " Nature" a creation of G-d, please?
There is no harm if one appreciated Nature- a creation of G-d, please, right?

Regards

 

[Quintessence]

Druidry​

Druidry loves nature; isn't " Nature" a creation of G-d, please?

Regards

As a general rule, contemporary Druids really don't care what is believed about "G-d." It's not a dogmatic religion that insists on some particular interpretation of the gods. That said, contemporary Druidry is usually explicitly Pagan and doesn't much worship or acknowledge your "G-d" and thus wouldn't view nature as a creation of it either. Some utilize Druidry as more of a philosophy or spirituality add-on to their existing religion, though, so you do find, say, Abrahamic Druids within the Druidic order I belong to... they just aren't super common.