The Duplex by Glenn McCoy for March 10, 2012
March 09, 2012
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Transcript:
Fang: You wanna go running? Eno: Can't. I'm in training. Fang: Training? Eno: for St. Pat's.
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Instead of celebrating 17 March, I consider it a day of solemn mourning, lamenting for the replacement of a religion that celebrated life and nature with a cult that is based on death and repression. If I drink on 17 March, it is not to celebrate the “saint” who ran Paganism out of the Celtic world, but in sorrow for the repressive institution that took its place (Ireland is one of the few European countries which, under the influence of the Catholic church, has reinstated civil blasphemy laws with a fine of up to €25,000).
Saint Patrick is, to me, one of the great villains of history. Sorry if that’s a downer for you.