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Yet the whole world still celebrate St. Patricks day every year, the culprit who forced that plague on Ireland. I'd love to live in an Ireland that people celebrated by dancing over fires and worshipping the sun. That sounds like a much happier place. Can't we just have paganism back and detoxify ourselves of the catholic church?

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I'm not sure that blaming St. Patricks is constructive. After all, the whole Europe was christian and there wasn't any available second option. You could definitely have it worse when done by entirely outside forces.

The question is what to do with the heritage here and now.

And yes, you can have paganism back, individually.

Have a real good look at the Catholics and you will quickly see the Catholics are just as pagan as pagans. There isn't a nickles worth of difference.

Pagans didn't have that love of misery of Catholicism, the glorification of pain, that ecstasy of suffering, that leads to so much masochism and sadism.

But yeah, besides that, you're right. Hell, a Cardinal in my (European) country just said we should pray for rain. Maybe we should do a dance /s

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