Why is Columbus Day still a holiday?

[Drahthaardogs]

99. The Romans wiped out the Druids and the Celts

drove them out of their native lands and up into Ireland, the last bastion of the Celts. In fact, had Ireland been a bit more hospitable and determined more economically valuable, the Romans likely would have wiped out the Celts entirely.

St. Patrick was a Roman, he stripped the pagan Irish of their historical ways and converted them to Roman Catholicism. Martin Luther hell, St. Patrick took the Celt's heritage away from them. Turned them into good Roman Catholics.

In the modern era, the Irish vs. the Northern Irish (and English to some extent) were indeed bloody battles. St. Patrick's Day in Ireland (if you have ever been there) is a CATHOLIC holiday, and a very solemn one at that. Maybe not quite so much today, but thirty years ago, it was, and outside of Dublin, mostly still is a Catholic only holiday. They do not drink green beer and party like drunken asses in the streets. Only the Americans do that.

I think there is more to my St. Patrick/Christopher Columbus observation than you want to admit.