I am a pagan of Irish descent, because somehow that must lend me more power to voice my sheer disappointment with the amount of pagans that can’t be bothered to actually explore the history of St. Patrick. Instead people are just regurgitating the same lies over and over again, conjuring up this oppression that is as false as George Washington’s choppers.
The truth is lackluster, but exonerating. St. Patrick was a man who spent formative years in slavery, discovered Christianity, found his calling (to be a missionary), and after he escaped, and was trained, he returned to Ireland to spread the Word that had taught him how to forgive. He did not convert all the Irish, and in fact would have fallen into obscurity if it weren’t for a rewrite to his history about 200 years after his death by monks who needed to gain the favor of the people to convert more.
The conversion of Ireland to Christianity was largely peaceful and took centuries. St. Patrick should be honored as the saint he was, and not turned into a villain because of lies spread about it.
At this point with the lies that are spread, it’s sickening to see the rampant comparison of the fictional slaughter of Irish Pagans by St. Patrick, to the very real Holocaust. It’s really offensive to the Jewish people, and you guys should know better.
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Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 