Sorry. I'm about to ruin #StPatricksDay for everyone with this 🧵
The story of St. Patrick begins with crimes against humanity. These crimes were twisted into heroic propaganda, which was turned into myth. When it hit the USA it turned into commercialization, and now it's just an excuse to get loaded.
1. St Patrick is not a saint - literally and figuratively, no Pope has ever recognized him as such.
2. The famous mountain in Ireland (where he drove the snakes out) was previously the most revered place of pilgrimage to the Pagan God Lugh (sun and light). The Catholic church just took it over and used the myth of Saint Patrick to control people.
3. There are no fossil records of snakes ever existing in Ireland - so the snakes were likely people who resisted being under the oppressive rule of the church.
4. The idea of the shamrock as a symbol for the trinity came 1000 years later and falsely attributed to Patrick to boost his mythology.
5. Patrick wasn't even Irish, he was Welsh. He killed or caused the death of at least 800 Pagans including having one of his own followers who was close to him disappear - then made up a magical she-beast story about her. Legend is he "baptized" then sent two princesses to heaven, but likely just killed two Celtic princesses - they were found dead at a well.
It gets better. He was a Roman citizen born & raised in Roman Britain; now Wales. Taken as a young teenager by a group of Celts to Ireland (Ireland having not been conquered by the Romans) & used as a farm hand for much of his teenage life. He escaped back to Roman Britain as an adult then returned to Ireland to proselytize Christianity & drive out the “snakes”; aka the unchristian Celts living there. In doing so was the leader of an attempted genocide of the native Celts.
@BOhUiginn @MeanwhileinCanada wow! He’s as bad as Steven Seagal!!!
