Popped in expecting to see a thread on Paddy's day. Being that it is a saints day, what is the general feeling of the Irish Atheist community?
Personally I can't stand the day for a few reasons but the main one is that it is an excuse for drunks in Celtic jerseys to have a fight.
Paddy's Day
Paddy's Day
“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and rebellion.”
- Oscar Wilde
- Oscar Wilde
Re: Paddy's Day
Its a potential future opportunity. Imagine a campaign, in the name of tolerance and inclusion, to rename it Paddies Day and take out the religious bandwagon. As it is it links a "day for the Irish" with being Catholic. I love telling tourist the guy was Welsh and the son and grandson of priests. So much for celibacy.....Marcas wrote:Popped in expecting to see a thread on Paddy's day. Being that it is a saints day, what is the general feeling of the Irish Atheist community?
Personally I can't stand the day for a few reasons but the main one is that it is an excuse for drunks in Celtic jerseys to have a fight.
Human communication is a very rickety rope bridge between minds. Its too narrow to allow but a few thoughts to cross at a time. Many are lost in the chasms of noise, suspicion, misinterpretation and shooting the message through dislike of the messenger.
Then, assuming your wife has never introduced an anit-Irish foreign religious orgnisiation to the country, we should all get drunk in her honor!Neesik wrote:I gotta celebrate it, it's my wifes birthday bless her
Human communication is a very rickety rope bridge between minds. Its too narrow to allow but a few thoughts to cross at a time. Many are lost in the chasms of noise, suspicion, misinterpretation and shooting the message through dislike of the messenger.
Another hour from now I'm off into the big smoke to survey the tourists and get their take on it. I suppose to be sociable I have no choice but to have a few pints....... All in the name of research of course!Neesik wrote:FXR
No fear of that! She's an out and out Atheist.Then, assuming your wife has never introduced an anit-Irish foreign religious orgnisiation to the country,Sounds good to me, cheerswe should all get drunk in her honor!
Human communication is a very rickety rope bridge between minds. Its too narrow to allow but a few thoughts to cross at a time. Many are lost in the chasms of noise, suspicion, misinterpretation and shooting the message through dislike of the messenger.
You don't know?RobbieB wrote:It's just another day of the year to me... Maybe cos I'm not religious and I don't drink.
What is it exactly that we celebrate today, anyway?
Today we celebrate the arrival on these shores of a Welsh religious fanatic and compulsive liar whose activates led to the subjugation of native culture, colonization, occupation, repression, penal laws, infiltration by a foreign religious state, child rape and torture, monumental hypocrisy and sexual repression.
So lets have a parade and a big party
Human communication is a very rickety rope bridge between minds. Its too narrow to allow but a few thoughts to cross at a time. Many are lost in the chasms of noise, suspicion, misinterpretation and shooting the message through dislike of the messenger.
FYI: Should the subject of "St" patrick come up by chance today you can mention his lineage. As he wrote himself in his "confessions" his great-grandfather was a deacon, his grandfather was a priest and his father, Colpornius, a deacon. Celibacy my ass.
So can we assume Patsy had a girlfriend too!
You don't hear much about that kinda thing on the 17th of March!
So can we assume Patsy had a girlfriend too!
You don't hear much about that kinda thing on the 17th of March!
Human communication is a very rickety rope bridge between minds. Its too narrow to allow but a few thoughts to cross at a time. Many are lost in the chasms of noise, suspicion, misinterpretation and shooting the message through dislike of the messenger.