Saint Patricks? ![Rated Excellent [5 out of 5].](/simpleblog/Themes/default/images/Star5.gif)
Here are some notes on St. Patricks:
* St. Patrick didn't try to stamp out the old pagan rites, instead he combined the Pagan beliefs with Christian customs.
* St. Patricks super imposed the sun symbol over the Christian cross to give it its unique shape.
* He allowed the Pagans to use the bonfire as worship to God, a pagan tradition. The Irish honored their gods with fire rites and Patrick allowed new converts to gather outside the church for easter bonfires.
St. Patrick is credited for casting
the Pagan/Celtic world/the old religion and driving the banishing
snakes out of Ireland, but did he really? St. Patrick was successul in
converting Pagans to Christians because he allowed certain Pagan rites
and beliefs to continue to be practiced mixed with Christian beleifs.
St. Patrick contaminated the true Christian system and introduced a new
breed of false religion, a hybrid religion of Christian and Pagan, not
true Christianity. He would have never made it otherwise.
Christianity replaced the pagan religion? not really...
And why is St. Patricks a Saint? No
human man is a saint. Christian season of lent? Irish Catholics
forbidden to eat meat, but on St. Patricks the church lifts those
restrictions so that people can participate in this celebration? Isn't
that contradictory?
The truth is that St. Patrick has
never been a purely christian holiday. It is a combination of religous
Pagan and Gaelic traditions. For example, the Shamrock is used to demostrate the Trinity, but it was also an ancient pagan symbol of the rebirth of spring.
The bottom line is that True Christians should not celebrate St.Patricks.