Q: I like being Irish, so much that I won't honor a person who murdered so many of my kind. He got rid of all the snakes is a big question on here, it's not real snakes they are talking about, the snake was a pagan symbol in Ireland, St.Patrick killed them off, those are the snakes he got rid off. There is also a great legend about him killing a she devil and banishing her to Lough Derg (red lake) In reality he probably drowned his lover in the lake for god know's what reason, they even found female remains in that lake dating to his time peroid. I love a good excuse to drink and like any other day Ill be drinking beers today, but does anyone else dislike this murderous scum, or at least feel weird that we celebrate a briton that slaughtered our kind and call it a day to be proud to be Irish. Ireland was one of the last places to hold out against christianity and hold on to its own beliefs until that man ruined the whole place. I don't hate christianity, I hate people who's only way to spread it was through murdering non-believers, if its such a true and moving religion it should spread by word and feeling of belief, no wonder it spread so fast when only the supporters of it were allowed to live. It's okay to hate murderers, not all hate is wrong
A: If you or I don't want to honor a holiday that's fine but the worst part is our school system is forcing our children to honor a murderer by wear green in honor of ole patrick, Patrick murdered the druids because they wore a head band with the symbol of the cobra on it (those are the snakes he drove out of Ireland they where running for their lives)which was there right as a free people, but the catholic church tried and failed to convert all of them to catholicism so they sent patty out to slay the ones that resisted.The remaining had no choice hence the name 'Irish-Catholic' they where forced into the religion or die like so many other non-christian people in the world.