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mcwise30
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I had a friend who got all up in arms about St. Patrick yesterday and said this:
“St. Patrick wasn’t Irish; and after escaping slavery he came to Ireland to threaten the Irish pagans, our much romanticised Druids, with death if they refused Christian conversion. There’s a reason “Patty” is a slur and why it’s the day of his death that is observed; he was a murderer. The “snakes” he’s credited with “driving from Ireland” were Irish people who fostered an eons-old spirituality on the Emerald Isle, now largely lost to time and the obscurity imposed by whitewashed history.”
I’m thinking there is something exaggerated here, could you clear it up for me?
“St. Patrick wasn’t Irish; and after escaping slavery he came to Ireland to threaten the Irish pagans, our much romanticised Druids, with death if they refused Christian conversion. There’s a reason “Patty” is a slur and why it’s the day of his death that is observed; he was a murderer. The “snakes” he’s credited with “driving from Ireland” were Irish people who fostered an eons-old spirituality on the Emerald Isle, now largely lost to time and the obscurity imposed by whitewashed history.”
I’m thinking there is something exaggerated here, could you clear it up for me?