THOUGHTS ON ST.PATRICKS DAY AND THE CHRISTMAS TREE WARS

as i was driving to work this morning i listen to some news. one of the features on the radio news was the yearly st. patrick's day parade in new york city. they talked about how people were wearing green and the excitement...they even interviewed people. hmmm...seems like a big event. i began thinking about the various ways that people celebrate this unofficial holiday in this country. you know, wearing green, visiting irish pubs, drinking green beer, playing irish music, having parades, etc.. i thought of all the little school children that would be wearing green and eating green frosted cookies and cupcakes. of all the shamrocks you would see in classroom windows and all the construction paper shamrocks....then it hit me, isn't this holiday something of a "religious" holiday. after all we are celebrating SAINT patrick and what he did for ireland. isn't he the patron SAINT of ireland? hmmm how could the atheists have allowe this to happen? then i remembered the idiocy of this past Christmas...you know; "holiday" trees not Christmas trees, not being allowed to wear red or green at schools, not being allowed to use red or green paper plates and napkins at your "winter" parties, the "happy holidays" or "seasons greetings" phrases that school children (and some store employees) were required to use. hmmm, i wonder what would happen if we applied this to st. patrick's day? that means children could not wear anything green this day, they could not eat anything green, employees and stores could not have anything green that even remotely hints at the holiday. there could not be any construction paper shamrocks or shamrocks in the windows... they would have to be called clovers (not shamrocks). there just seems to be no end to the "possibilities". an atheist could have a blast with this holiday. oooo, better not let the a.c.l.u. know about there obvious blunder. who knows we might be banned from driving green cars on march 17th every year.