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every one is free to use the site for religious needs. You dont permission to stand there a pray do you.
Last year (or was it the year before?) there was some such Christian 'need' to pray in the Avebury Circle - it struck me as more a political statement than a religious one however. Same thing happened at Callanish last year - Christians felt the 'need' to make their presence known during a non-Christian event at a place meaningful to non-Christians.

Of course, you could argue that Druids and pagans have no more right pray at Avebury than anyone else - you might be right; difference is that Druids and pagans don't have many places to call their own and Avebury sort of fits the bill. Seems to me that while Druids may not have had anything to do with the construction of Avebury, latter-day Druids and pagans are probably more 'connected' to the place than any other religious/spiritual group. Christians, neo-Nazis, and those who follow the Germanic mythological tradition, certainly have no historical connection to the Avebury Circle but they do have their own churches, parade grounds and places with names derived from the Germanic pantheon - I suggest they go there to worship and leave Avebury well alone.

Very well said! I remember seeing something scrawled on the Northwick Park roundabout in Harrow in the late 70's (it was there for years) and it read 'Religion is the opiate of the masses, Nicholas Parsons is the opiate of the people'.

'Live from Norwich, it's the quiz of the week' became a playground mantra ... All religion and all politics are simply catch phrase comedy.

Once upon a time in Ireland a faction of the Christian church didn't have anywhere to practice their faith and so the moved to the fields and worshiped at stones known as mass rocks. As soon as it was legal to be a Catholic they quickly abandoned tis practice, bought land and built more 'appropriate' temples.

I've often wondered why modern pagans don't do similar. Surely one great way to show that you're serious, both to other people and to your gods is to dedicate the time and resources to erecting a temple yourself. I am amazed that more hasn't been done in this way. I have nothing against people having ceremonies at sites unless they leave litter or stop other people enjoying the place - and by this I mean things like telling folks to piss off from public places and getting aggressive because there's a ceremony on or something ... and I've had this happen.

I'd love to see some new Oak groves planted or new stone circles built if that's what folks want to do. The modern ones built throughout Wales for the Eisteddfods etc are great (as long as it's made clear that they're modern and why they were built.

So, come on all you pagans. Do some lovely temple building.