How is it that people who put down the Catholic Church always celebrate St. Patricks Day?

Question

Recon: I hope to tell you that St. Patrick died for the Catholic Church.

shjOLDS_4: I am not wondering why you are no longer Catholic. After reading that, actually I'm kind of glad. "That they are no longer with us, is proof that they were not with us to start with" --St. Paul

Answer 1

I suspect it's more a celebration of Irish culture and Irish stout than it is a religious celebration, don't you?

Answer 2

B/c to a lot of people, it's more of a day to drink green beer. My theory is that when there was a huge Irish migration to the US, their 'friends' in the new country weren't necessarily Catholic but would have a pint with them on their special days. Same with Mardi Gras. A very Catholic day, but you wouldn't know that now!

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BTW, both Christmas and Easter were ORIGINALLY Celtic holidays the Catholics couldn't get the natives to give up so they tried to change them into Christian holidays. Bridget used to be a Celtic goddess who the church changed into a st since the native people kept worshipping her, Bridget. HaHa! You even are carrying a name that's pagan!
Also, I don't think much of St. Patrick but any excuse to drink Guiness! :-D

Answer 3

Well Midge I'm not Catholic but I am part Irish and I watch the St. Patrick's Day Parade. Anybody who is Irish can celebrate St. Patrick's Day as it is a well recognized holiday for Irish people. You don't have to be Catholic to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

Answer 4

They like the booze.
An excuse to get lathered up.
Should have seen it in Boston a few years back. State police urinating in the gutter while in uniform.
Boozed to the gills.
Big Irish population in Boston.

Interesting that they celebrate what they don't know.
Patric was a Knight around 900 AD.
The Druids were through out the land.
On Halloween they would come around to the peoples houses and ask for their daughter for a blood sacrifice. If you said yes they would leave a jack o lantern outside your door. And take your daughter. If you said no, they would put a mark on your door and then send their hit squad out to kill you in three days.

Patrick got his boys together and swooped down on their meetings. They would kill every last one.

The snakes that were supposedly driven from Ireland were druids not actual snakes.

I thought you would find this interesting.

Answer 5

I don't know why they do either, because I sure don't. Great question! The celebration of Halloween came from "mama" also, but most people don't know that.

If you are wondering why I am no longer a Catholic, I learned about it's dirty little secrets. Of course, the "cat-aholic" church is not going to telling everyone of its past--and present--things it's involved in. If most people knew of the catholic church real past, most people wouldn't even be catholic, much less become catholic. In fact, if most people knew of it's real past, mama would have been kicked out of America during the second world war. It's not just former catholics making this claim, it's many of the Jews as well who learned the truth about the mama first hand.

If you ever make it to Madrid, Spain, there's a wax museum there. Inside it has figures there standing together as friends, they are: Hitler, Mussolini, Franco and Pope Pius XII. That was back in 1980. I don't know about now.

Consider reading a book titled: “The Secret History of the Jesuits”, Edmond Paris (ISBN: 0937958107) He too, was a former catholic. Another one is titled, "Foxe's book of Martyrs", by John Foxe (ISBN: 1565635043). Read it starting from chapter four.

A catholic newspaper in Spain wrote the following on the day Hitler died:

“Adolph Hitler, son of the Catholic Church, died while defending Christianity. It is therefore understandable that words cannot be found to lament over his death, when so many where found to exalt his life. Over his dead remains stands his victorious moral figure, with the palm of the martyr; God gives Hitler laurels of victory.”

If you would like to know more about the real history of the Catholic church, click on the URL below. The name of this book is titled "The Godfathers". You may read it online for free. No downloading required. To move on to its next page, just click on the arrows below its page.

Answer 6

Because they like green, and beer, and green beer.

Actually, because I am Pagan, I don't celebrate. The "snakes" story was a metaphor for driving Pagans and Paganism out of Ireland. It was the beginning of replacing Pagan holidays with Christian, literally building Christian shrines on top of Pagan, and abolishing womens' rights as well as the worship of the Goddess.

Answer 7

St Patrick (if he ever even existed) was a Celtic Catholic-different from the Roman Catholics. We can be pagans or atheists and celebrate St. Paddy's Day because we're Irish, and isn't that really why we celebrate St. Patrick's Day in America?

Answer 8

Even though it started as a religious holiday in Ireland, it is recognized worldwide as a day to celebrate Irish culture - for the Irish and non-Irish alike.

This Irish girl is not thinking about the church as I start knocking the beers back...

Answer 9

Why is it that people who usually put down Christianity always celebrate Christmas (the birth of Christ) or Easter (the celebration of the resurrection of Christ)? Because these traditional celebrations have completely lost their meaning in the secular world.

Answer 10

well, the american celebration of St. Patrick's day has little to do with the saint himself. here, its just another excuse to be drunk in public.

Answer 11

1. St. Pat brought the good news of Jesus Christ to Ireland.
2. St. Pat did not bring the corruption of the Catholic Church or the recent contradictions that Pope's have made. St. Pat was about Jesus, not about Catholicism.
3. We celebrate salvation coming to Ireland.

Hope this helps.