Apparently, there are still traces of Christianity in our culture that need to be obliterated. The latest example is the Irish national holiday in honor of a Christian missionary. St. Patrick’s Day has been abolished by a Massachusetts school that had traditionally celebrated this day.
The Soule School in Wilbraham, Mass. has rechristened St. Patrick’s Day as O’Green Day. Lisa Curtin, the principal of Soule School, confirmed this in a Fox News piece in which she said the decision was made in pursuit of “inclusion and diversity.” Non-Catholic and non-Irish students supposedly might feel excluded from celebrations of the day.
The renaming is just one of a myriad of similar measures whereby governmental agencies attempt to ban Christian heritage in the United States. These practices are justified by the separation of church and state, which also prohibits the display of crucifixes and tablets showing the Ten Commandments in school classrooms.
The Berlin television tower will glow green on St. Patrick’s Day
Barack Obama’s latest governmental initiative was aimed against the Catholic Church which, he decreed, had to use taxpayer money to pay for birth control and abortions even though it is philosophically opposed to both.
The Soule School recently also abolished Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14), a holiday that also honors a Christian martyr. That day was rechristened “Kind and Caring Day.” St. Patrick’s Day on March 17 honors St. Patrick, the man who brought Christianity to Ireland in the fifth century and is considered Ireland’s national saint.
Irish people worldwide celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. In the United States, even rivers are dyed green on March 17 and this year, for the first time, Berlin’s television tower will be illuminated with green spotlights.
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