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Dear Fr. Raphael,

Now that I have stopped laughing (and I needed a lift this morning, so thank you), I have to say that we have the same sort of thing in the UK with self-styled orders of Druids turning up at Stonehenge at the solstices and claiming the 'right' to carry out their 'religion' there as their ancestors did; that no one knows what their 'ancestors' did, and that no one has done it for ages is, it seems, no bar to their enthusiasm.

It ought to be added that these Druids are different from the Welsh Druids who turn up at the National Eistedfodd for a celebration of Welsh culture - and of which order the Archbishop of Canterbury is an honorary member (or did I just make that last one up?)...

I occasionally wonder whether there is an unconcerted effort to read through all the patristic literature on heresies and revive each of them in turn?

At the last UK census enough people entered the word 'Jedi' into the box for 'religion' to make it an officially recognised one! May the force be with them.

In Christ,

John