Today is the day mizzillions of folks, some Irish and some just looking for an excuse to get soaked on bad beer with green dye in it, celebrate the Catholic St. Patrick, who is credited with bringing the message of God to Ireland. Obviously they see this as a Good Thing®.

However, there is another way of viewing the coming of St. Patrick. The Catholic Church had this habit of marching around the globe “converting” every society it encountered. Some of these conversions were accomplished with less bloodshed than others, but in pretty much all cases we’re talking about the extermination of cultures that had been doing fine for millennia. In the case of Ireland, we know that there was a rich history and culture when St. Paddy arrived, and their pagan/Druidic religious practices worked well for them.

The Church put an end to that and set in motion the course of events that has led us to modern day Ireland, a utopian land where all live in peace and harmony under the adoring eye of the One True God® and His One True Church®.

Today millions and millions of people are wearing green in celebration of the Christianizing of a pagan land. Others of us wear black in mourning for that which was lost at the hands of a Church-sponsored cultural genocide.

Drink up, folks.