at least for people around here, it's not much more than an excuse to drink. i'm not criticizing that or anything, but here's my problem with st. patrick's day:
i'm not a fan of st. patrick.
patrick got his sainthood by "converted thousands of irish people to christianity from paganism." indeed, he's basically credited (rightly or wrongly) with converting the whole damn island. the thing is, europe's already got plenty of christian countries. did they really need yet another one? europe used to be mostly pagan; the monotheistic religions were centered more in the middle-east. i understand how christians worked hard to turn that around, but couldn't they have left one or two pagan bits? it just would have been an a lot more interesting world if they left some pagans around.
