17 Jun
2026
17 Jun
'26
1:04 p.m.
> With adademic ivory tower masters driving the bus,
instead of St.
> Patrick, the snakes would never have been driven out of Ireland.
On Wed, 17 Jun 2026, Mychaela Falconia wrote:
Dear people of the list, please stop treating that
driving-out of
"snakes" as a positive act! Actual snakes never existed in Ireland
(it has to do with the last Ice Age and the land bridge disappearing
quickly at its end), but that Patrick guy drove out people he and his
ilk didn't like: pagans and anyone who would now be called LGBTQ+.
I am one of those "snakes", and every time someone describes that
crime-against-humanity as a positive thing, my response is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48NzjzDQcRA
Blessed Be,
Mother Mychaela
I am actually sincerely sorry that I offended you.
I ridicule the whole "St. Patrick drove the snakes out" myth, by
deliberately misinterpreting the phrasing in order to put a chauffer's cap
on him, behind the steering wheel of a bus or an Uber, hired by the
snakes. I knew that there was not a snake population at the time, but I
was ignorant even that the myth was euphemistic of human persecution.
I have nothing against snakes. when the gophers destroyed my tomato
plants, I wished that there were a lot more in the neighborhood, etc.
Nor am I down on the Irish people. Sad at some of the dehumanizing
persecution of some groups over the years, particularly forced
"Christianization".
BTW, Druidism is no more "dead" than X86. My late best friend identified
as Druid. I started and read all of Terry Pratchett's works due to
somebody on this list mentioning Belafon (a druid computer hardware
consultant who delivered trilithons to Stronehenge)
My mother's family were Scots-Irish (Scots side were direct descendent of
Simon "the fox" Fraser (the last person that England beheaded by sword)).
I don't know any of the details of WHY her Irish ancestors felt that they
had to leave Ireland, but then were just as persecuted here.