St Patrick's Day
Much to our distress St Patrick’s Day was cancelled this year. By ourselves, out of precaution and sensible adherence to social isolation principles. It’s a great shame, and we are devastated. When St Patrick’s Day and its celebration gets mentioned sometimes, people often remark how stupid and out of character it is for us to go and celebrate something that is a symbol of christianity, of the extinction of native culture and of its replacement with a foul Middle Eastern death-cult that vilifies and devalues life on this beautiful earth while peddling pie in the sky, worldy power abuse and pedophilia. And well may they ask. These are good points and fair questions. St Patrick didn’t first bring chrisitianity to Ireland, it was already there, in small amounts, brought over, presumably, by random people from christian Roman Britain coming over for trade or whatever. A bloke called Palladius is sometimes associated with providing some sort of promotion of the religion in Ireland...