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   From: LiberalismIsADisease@Leftwing-Cowards.net   
      
   On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 20:11:22 +0000, Saint George   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 17/03/2015 07:45 pm, Byker wrote:   
   >> Remember that WHITE Irish were enslaved by the British and were actually   
   >> cheaper to purchase than black slaves at the time. The Irish slave trade   
   >> began when James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World.   
   >> His Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent   
   >> overseas   
   >> and sold to English settlers in the West Indies. By the mid 1600s, the   
   >> Irish   
   >> were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat. At that time, 70% of   
   >> the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves.   
   >>   
   >> Ireland quickly became the biggest source of human livestock for English   
   >> merchants. The majority of the early slaves to the New World were actually   
   >> white.   
   >>   
   >>  From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and   
   >> another   
   >> 300,000 were sold as slaves. Ireland’s population fell from about 1,500,000   
   >> to 600,000 in a single decade. Families were ripped apart as the British   
   >> did   
   >> not allow Irish dads to take their wives and children with them across the   
   >> Atlantic. This led to a helpless population of homeless women and children.   
   >> Britain’s solution was to auction them off as well.   
   >>   
   >> During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14   
   >> were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies,   
   >> Virginia and New England. In this decade, 52,000 Irish (mostly women and   
   >> children) were sold to Barbados and Virginia. Another 30,000 Irish men and   
   >> women were also transported and sold to the highest bidder. In 1656,   
   >> Cromwell ordered that 2000 Irish children be taken to Jamaica and sold as   
   >> slaves to English settlers.   
   >   
   >Something you should remember cocksucker, ST. PATRICK WAS A BRIT!   
      
    The man eventually canonized as Saint Patrick by the Catholic Church   
   was born to a wealthy family in AD 387 in Kilpatrick, Scotland. His   
   real name was Maewyn Succat. It was his extensive missionary work in   
   Ireland for which he is famous. During the thirty years of work there   
   he supposedly converted over 135,000 people, established 300 churches,   
   and consecrated 350 bishops. He died on March 17, 461.   
      
   History records that Saint Patrick, at age sixteen, was captured by   
   Celtic raiders and spent several years as a slave in Ireland. It was   
   during this time that he learned the various rituals, customs, and   
   language of Celtic Druids. It was these people that he eventually   
   converted to Catholicism. He apparently had a dream in which God spoke   
   to him saying, “Your ship is ready.” Saint Patrick was then able to   
   escape by ship back to Britain. Shortly thereafter, he experienced   
   another dream in which he received a letter which claimed to be the   
   “voice of the Irish.” When he opened it, he heard the voices of all   
   those who he had met in Ireland begging him to return.   
      
   Saint Patrick then began a course of study to become ordained a bishop   
   in the Catholic Church and returned to Ireland to establish the   
   church. Though the task was difficult and dangerous, he persisted and   
   was able to build a strong foundation for Christianity. The Irish   
   people were receptive to his teachings, especially in light of the   
   fact that he was able to take several of their Celtic symbols and   
   Christianize them. The most prominent of these is the green shamrock,   
   a certain type of clover. He used this plant, which was held sacred by   
   the Druids, as a symbol of the Trinity. Additionally, Saint Patrick   
   was instrumental in bringing alcohol to Ireland, which eventually had   
   a significant impact upon the Irish culture.   
      
   Each year millions of people celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. It is a   
   national holiday in Ireland when people do not work, but observe it in   
   worship and family gatherings. In the United States, the first St.   
   Patrick’s Day parade was held in New York on March 17, 1762. It   
   consisted largely of Irish soldiers. Today, St. Patrick’s Day is   
   celebrated by wearing green, which symbolizes the return of spring as   
   well as the Irish culture. Also prominent in this celebration is green   
   beer, pointing back to Saint Patrick’s introduction of alcohol to   
   Ireland.   
      
   What started as a Catholic holiday became an official feast day in the   
   17th century. Since then, it has become a secular celebration of the   
   Irish culture. Neither Saint Patrick nor St. Patrick’s Day is   
   mentioned in Scripture. While we would strongly disagree of some of   
   the aspects of Catholic theology that St. Patrick taught, the fact   
   that around 1,600 years ago a man dedicated his life to proclaiming   
   the gospel, resulting in tens of thousands coming to faith in Christ,   
   is most definitely worth celebrating (Luke 15:7–10).   
      
   Read more:   
   http://www.gotquestions.org/St-Patricks-Day.html#ixzz3UfyydLI8   
      
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