A few facts about St. Patrick:
- He wasn't Irish, he was Roman.
- There never were any snakes in Ireland.
- "Driving the snakes out of Ireland" is a euphemism for leading the slaughter of the indigenous Celtic pagans.
Now, tomorrow I'll be wearing green to celebrate the arrival of spring, and surely I'll raise a pint or two of Guiness in honor of the Emerald Isle. But an Irish person celebrating "St. Patrick's Day" is as absurd as a Mexican celebrating "Cortez Day."
Posted by: El Bizarro | http://bizarro.typepad.com | Thu Mar 18 22:17:33 2004
Yeah, those Christians love celebrating death - Easter, the passover etc. If they weren't so well established, you could almost accuse them of being a death worshiping cult.
Posted by: Marc ap Neb | http:// | Fri Mar 26 13:06:10 2004
ahh, but Patrick was also a Celt (or a Britanno/Roman/Germanic mongrel like the rest of us), possibly Welsh but most likely from somewhere near Bristol. Kidnapped by the proto-paddies as a boy; he was made to look after the pigs. Returned to Ireland many years later in order to evangelise the (already christian) Irish. He hated the Irish with the sort of ferocity which can be mustered only by monotheists. This allegation brought to you by badly remembered Celtic history (tm).
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Posted by: Andy Gimblett | http://gimbo.org.uk | Wed Mar 17 16:23:06 2004
<i>But an Irish person celebrating "St. Patrick's Day" is as absurd as a Mexican celebrating "Cortez Day."</i>
Unless, of course, they happen to be a Christian.