Druids get Charity Status

[MarillionFan]

BBC News - Druidry to be classed as religion by Charity Commission

Expect a raft of Druidic charity shops appearing along the high street soon!

Personally, I cannot wait for Jedi to get it's status!

[xoggoth]

Beats me why religions get charity status anyway except on actual charitable work.

[suityou01]

[MarillionFan]

Look he's got a job and I bet he's signing on. This would never have happened under the Tories!

[hyperD]

[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11457795]Personally, I cannot wait for Jedi to get it's status!

I hate to dampen your midi-chlorians but it looks like the rebellion has already been crushed by the Death Star Chamber:

Grainger v Nicholson

"Given that context, philosophical beliefs must therefore always be of a similar nature to religious beliefs. It will be for the courts to decide what constitutes a belief for the purposes of [the Regulations] but case law suggests that any philosophical belief must attain a certain level of cogency, seriousness, cohesion and importance, must be worthy of respect in a democratic society and must not be incompatible with human dignity. Therefore an example of a belief that might meet this description is humanism, and examples of something that might not … would be support of a political party or a belief in the supreme nature of the Jedi Knights"

h/t His Grace

[thunderlizard]

Ha! Druids 1 Scientologists 0

Beats me why religions get charity status anyway except on actual charitable work.

If it wasn't for New Testament Greek there'd be no such concept as charity.

[AtW]

Today druids, tomorrow jedi - remember to put your religion correctly during census next year...

[xoggoth]

Does Satanism get charitable status? Kissing goat's bottoms is certainly worthy of respect in a democratic society .

[shaunbhoy]

Kissing goat's bottoms is certainly worthy of respect in a democratic society .

Why do you think we have so many Freemasons?