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And druids do have constant rituals like the summer/winter solsice, harvest and many SIMILAR to that of pagan or wiccan.
Druid rituals are not similar to Wiccan rituals or to many other forms of Pagan rituals.
The important thing here is that
druid rituals differ from organisation to organisation. And, for that matter, from grove to grove within organization. So you cannot state any particular ritual form as definitive of druidry as a religion, because they differ.
Solstice is not a ritual. It is a holiday.
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druidy is similar to christianity in the way that you can follow the path but not "go to church" so to speak.
True of Paganism as a whole. Not a defining aspect.
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Druidisim shares many core beliefs with many other religons, like be good to nature, worships the gods, be a good person in ths life and you will have a good after life.
So how is it its own particular religion? What distinguishes one particular path called "druidry" out of Neo-Paganism as a whole? It still just sounds like "generic neo-Paganism" to me.
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then there are the principal of that makes a "person"
Three things are becoming a person: knowledge, good deeds, and gentleness.
Three things without which there can be nothing good: truth, valor, and generosity.
The three manifestations of the true human are: civility, generosity, and compassion.
Are these present within OBOD, ADF, BDO and others? I did not come across it in ADF.
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would you have such a problem if they were not called druids?
This has been brought up several times. You are defending reasons for using the term "druid". We are saying that it is not appropriate. The validity of the path is irrelevant here.
The reason I asked for defining aspects of "druidry" as a whole is because the word is used, as the name for a religion, in description of paths that are significantly different - to the point where someone in one path can be a Christian and still be a druid, while the other says one MUST be a Pagan and worship Indo-European gods. One path links the term solely with Celtic cultures and the other says you can worship only the Greek gods and call yourself a druid. These paths differ to the extent that there are few things linking the two paths. As such, they are not the same religion.
You yourself have not given me anything that distinguishes "druidry" from generic neo-paganism
and applies to all groups that call themselves "druid". Why then call druidry a religion, if effectively all it means is "generic neo-pagan"? We already have the term "pagan", which is actually accurate and doesn't offend cultures to the same extent.
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