Irish Girls like This

I was looking up different ideas of Afterworld. I found this site:

http://www.summerlands.com/

I always thought Goddess worship made more sense then God Worship, but maybe that's just because it appeals to my sense that women are at the very least equal to men. That women can give birth should count for something. Men emit a million sperm, daily. Women produce actual people! Even though, really, it's more like a curse, but it would not be if women were exalted for this awesome power, instead of viewed as a societal burden. 

In Ireland, I read in some book, before people were Christians, they were Pagans and they danced around Maypoles and had a summer solstice orgy of fun and generally had a rollicking good time. 

They had slaves, too. It wasn't all Meade and shamrocks for everybody. Their slaves were blond, I think Nordic? Maybe.

Then I think some guy who became a saint, later, maybe Patrick-no...I forget, anyway, he comes and starts spreading stories about why everyone has to stop having a good time, stat, and become Christians and give money to England and English churches, or give part of all their things they owned. Their cows. Everything. A tax. To the church in the name of God? I read this book ages ago so this information is in my head, but now that I am writing it out it just sounds ridiculous. Can this be right?

Then there was a bunch of wars and everyone had to act like they had a big fat stick up their asses forever, which pretty well brings us up to date on things.

"The Summerlands" are Pagan Heaven. Sounds pretty.

So...

http://www.irelandcalls.com/st-patrick.html

Holy shit-no pun intended. It WAS Saint Patrick. I can't believe I remembered that. Oh well, duh, St Patricks Day...wait a minute! OMG, OHMYGOD...so every year we celebrate, generally by getting wasted and acting all Pagan the guy who fucked up our party? Those of us who are Irish, I mean.

I think it said in the book that i do not remember the name of: When the churches were influencing everyone to conform to what they wanted them to do what they did was, they let them keep their Holy Days (holidays) and gradually just turned their holidays into something that would fit with Catholicism or Christianity or whatever.

Because people like to party...so they took away the fun May Day, and gave us St Pat's! Bastards! I don't know if that is true, though. It's around the same time, though, Springtime. 

OH!

"In order to convert the pagans in a friendly manner, Patrick used many of the popular and familiar pagan symbols and combined them with Christian symbols. Some of the ways he did this was to integrate the bonfire, earlier a pagan rite to the gods, into a celebration of Easter. He also used the sun, a very meaningful symbol to the pagans, as a means of easily transitioning the cross into the pagans' everyday worship by placing the sun on the Christian cross."

The Mayans worshipped the sun, and so did the Greeks.  It seems to me to make a lot of sense to worship the Earth. how did things get so out of whack?

Holy cow-maybe it's like a game of "telephone." They placed the sun on the cross...became the SON on the cross...

The greatest gift my parents ever gave me was to let me decide for myself. I never appreciated it so much until now.