St Patrick in Ireland

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Just received a comment on a Youtube video where the poster claims that St Patrick never set foot in Ireland once, her claim is that the Church one day showed up and just slaughtered pagans en masse.

She provided no evidence to back up her claims, where on Earth would a claim like this come from?
 
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She provided no evidence to back up her claims, where on Earth would a claim like this come from?
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Who knows. Could be mentally ill, could have seen some misleading Youtube video, could have just invented it in order to troll on Youtube.

Ignore it, hide it etc since she has no evidence and it’s patently ridiculous, especially considering that his tomb is in Northern Ireland so he obviously stepped foot there, they didn’t just truck his body over to inter it on some island far from his own land.
 
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We know for a fact St. Patrick was there, after all he drove the snakes out of Ireland . . . And they all ended up in England! 😀 🐍
 
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In the early 5th century? if that were true, how did the Irish Gaelic language survive if they were replaced by foreigners?
 
The truth is, there are so many anti-christians they will literally believe anything that come to their mind so long as Christianity is the enemy. I’ve known many that have said the same kind of things without any rhyme or reason other than;

“Well, the crusaders did it. So ThEy must haVe DOne it EVErywhErE!!” (Not even reading enough to know the first crusades were in response to hundreds of years or Muslim aggression.)
 
LOL anybody with a two bit opinion and an internet connection can say anything they like 🤣🤣🤣
 
In modern times critics of Christianity often tend to glorify the pre-Christian societies of Europe and the Americas. They often refuse to believe that any conversion to Christianity was voluntary and assume that it was always caused by violent purges of pagans. In concert with this they tend to gloss over the more unsavory aspects of pagan religions such as human sacrifice.

While that youtube comment you received may seem disturbed, and probably was, it’s unfortunately part of a larger trend.
 
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A link to the YouTube video would have helped so people could have watched it and perhaps provided you with better answers.

I would like to know why half the nonsense that ends up on YouTube gets there.

One thing to remember about S Patrick is that he was not Irish. I have to wonder if that is what the video was talking about.

It is also worth remembering that given time and place any history of S Patrick or anyone else from his time is going to be rather patchy.
 
As others noted, anybody can come on You Tube and make any kind of claim. And this isn’t even that—this is somebody who WATCHED You Tube and then commented. This is on the order of trolls who think that any random thought that crosses their purported ‘mind’, especially if it’s some kind of crazy conspiracy or revisionist crap or inflammatory ‘toid’, needs to be put out in cyberspace to stir a pot, fan a flame, upset, embroil, confuse, or spread hatred.

Pray for them and ignore them. It’s the best tactic. Giving this kind of ‘claim’ (which is no claim at all) any response tends to ‘legitimate’ the claim in the eyes of others. Ignoring it means it will probably at first be frantically cycled and flamed for a period of time until the giant ‘non response’ leads the trolls to seek some other ‘flame point’.
 
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