The BHA regained charitable status to great financial advantage. An essential element of the BHA activities was support of the growing number of local groups. Another very important activity was developing a network of celebrants able to conduct non-religious funerals, weddings, naming ceremonies and same sex affirmations (before the law allowing gay civil partnerships).

What we want

Ultimately we want the new law amended to put humanist charities in the same legal position as religious ones.

We have maintained that the Charity Commission should heed the Human Rights Act and treat charities based on non-religious beliefs in the same way as religious ones. It has so far refused to do so but its intentions with the draft guidance about non-religious beliefs are still unclear. The consultation is now closed and we await the outcome.
What you can do

We need to monitor how the law on public benefit is applied to religious charities. If you come across any religious charities which seem to you – after reading the Commission’s guidance – to suggest undue lenience on the part of the Commission, please contact us.

Simon_Gardner wrote:Is that The Clash?

Barry Cade wrote:

Simon_Gardner wrote:Is that The Clash?

I believe it is a youth beat combo called Good Charlotte. Faux punk at best.

everything has a spiritual dimension

Festeringbob wrote:

DoctorE wrote:

Simon_Gardner wrote:
WTF does this mean?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6m_BeOeQ-s[/youtube]

please, there are recovering addicts on this forum who need to keep themselves away from this stuff

Ihavenofingerprints wrote:They can start reaping in the benefits now. No tax, government money, the right to be offended, infiltrating politics ect...

Celts

A wicker man, that, according to Caesar, was used to sacrifice humans to the gods.According to Roman sources, Celtic Druids engaged extensively in human sacrifice.[28] According to Julius Caesar, the slaves and dependents of Gauls of rank would be burnt along with the body of their master as part of his funerary rites.[29] He also describes how they built wicker figures that were filled with living humans and then burned.[30] It is known that druids at least supervised sacrifices of some kind. According to Cassius Dio, Boudica's forces impaled Roman captives during her rebellion against the Roman occupation, to the accompaniment of revelry and sacrifices in the sacred groves of Andate.[31] Different gods reportedly required different kinds of sacrifices. Victims meant for Esus were hanged, those meant for Taranis immolated and those for Teutates drowned. Some, like the Lindow Man, may have gone to their deaths willingly.

Archaeological evidence from the British Isles seems to indicate that human sacrifice may have been practised, over times long pre-dating any contact with Rome. Human remains have been found at the foundations of structures from the Neolithic time to the Roman era, with injuries and in positions that argue for their being foundation sacrifices.[citation needed]

Skeletons belonging to as many as 150 people and dating back to about the time of the Roman conquest were discovered in Alveston, England. Druids may have killed the victims in a single event.[32]

Ritualised decapitation survives in the archaeological record such as the example of 12 headless corpses at the French late Iron Age sanctuary of Gournay-sur-Aronde.[33]

Tyrannical wrote:So, I guess these new wave Druids aren't heavy into human sacrifice like the real ones were?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice#Europe

Celts

A wicker man, that, according to Caesar, was used to sacrifice humans to the gods.According to Roman sources, Celtic Druids engaged extensively in human sacrifice.[28] According to Julius Caesar, the slaves and dependents of Gauls of rank would be burnt along with the body of their master as part of his funerary rites.[29] He also describes how they built wicker figures that were filled with living humans and then burned.[30] It is known that druids at least supervised sacrifices of some kind. According to Cassius Dio, Boudica's forces impaled Roman captives during her rebellion against the Roman occupation, to the accompaniment of revelry and sacrifices in the sacred groves of Andate.[31] Different gods reportedly required different kinds of sacrifices. Victims meant for Esus were hanged, those meant for Taranis immolated and those for Teutates drowned. Some, like the Lindow Man, may have gone to their deaths willingly.

Archaeological evidence from the British Isles seems to indicate that human sacrifice may have been practised, over times long pre-dating any contact with Rome. Human remains have been found at the foundations of structures from the Neolithic time to the Roman era, with injuries and in positions that argue for their being foundation sacrifices.[citation needed]

Skeletons belonging to as many as 150 people and dating back to about the time of the Roman conquest were discovered in Alveston, England. Druids may have killed the victims in a single event.[32]

Ritualised decapitation survives in the archaeological record such as the example of 12 headless corpses at the French late Iron Age sanctuary of Gournay-sur-Aronde.[33]

the pigeon wrote:Since almost nothing is known about the original beliefs and practices of druids, what do these people believe in? And what led them to decide it was worth believing?