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St Patrick is not revered from freeing them from snakes but from the dark forces controlling them. Ireland is an island that always had few snakes on its land. The snake is a symbol for a low belly person who crawls and cannot reach up to the true light. So were these pagans, and Druids of the Celt tribes who embraced this symbol. The Irish people were being persecuted by these people of dark forces who worshiped the snake in their rituals to conjure up demonic spirits through sorcery to fight against their enemies or to manipulate the weak Irish folk and taking them as slaves. They made human sacrifices, especially children to their various false gods of Baal and Molloch, along with cannibalism. The Celts/Druids were a warring people. Just read up on their documented wars. They did not want the growing Christian belief in one true God. So they persecuted these Christian people or anyone who might become one. The Irish people wanted to be freed from this tyranny so St Patrick gave them freedom through the power of God Almighty, not through war. This is why he has continued to be revered by Irish Christians for centuries, since the 5th century time of St Patrick because he only used the fire of the Holy Spirit. What would Ireland be like today if the Druids would have continued? It would be a country of people worshipping the dark forces. Thank goodness Pagan practice today is not the dominant way of life in Ireland. Many of their sites are still there today to remind us of who they were and how St Patrick brought spiritual freedom to the Irish by converting the very willing Druids and not by war. It was a country enslaved to Satan and then freed. Something to think about.

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beate's avatar

County Cork eh? Happy St.Patricks Day~ Nice misty photo with cemetery below?!

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