but nowadays society has corrupted this day an made it an excuse for people to have a lot of premaritial sex... ye i dont think theres a question there...
2006-10-07 19:27:04 · 5 answers · asked by STAR POWER=) 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Valentine's Day
ye ok... but this day catholics honor the saint ... whose namsake we commercialized...
2006-10-07 19:34:22 · update #1
ye ok... but this day catholics honor the saint ... whose namsake we commercialized... we don't call it day of fertilization do we..
2006-10-07 19:34:45 · update #2
As time passed by so does the original celebration is lost, like Christmas. Although there is actually no harm with that because the young generations of today are very active sexually, which may be a bad thing, yet celebrating Valentine's Day is not actually about Saint Valentine himself but this is the time to celebrate love and romance. Premarital sex should be done between two adult consenting parties and not by teenagers who are not even aware of the consequences of their actions. Commercialized or not, we cannot deny the fact that it is still the celebration of love. Goodluck!
2006-10-08 10:31:23 · answer #1 · answered by ~Charmed Flor~ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Saint Valentine continued to practice heterosexual marriage ceremonies when heterosexual marriage was outlawed, because of its effect on military age young men.
He was honored. His commitment to ways that give true life to community and give true honor to God are honored. His god is honored. What society "has done" is what it has been doing for a long time, and isnt surprising at all. The self-destroyed cant act not self-destroying: they cant behave inconsistently with respect to their destroyed-ness. Except for grace, they are already all over with but for the dying.
Remember those pagans that some claim these holidays were "stolen from" also believed in and practiced involuntary human sacrifice in worship to their "gods". Try reading the original Homer, or other non-censored authors of the period. The crime for which tens of thousands of christians were burned alive as human torches for sport, was that of not worshipping those pagan gods, consider how Nero is recorded by history to have lit his chariot races in honor to his pagan gods. You are attributing a theft of a holiday where peoples families and friends were brutally murdered and died horribly at the hands of roman pagan zealots. Think about it.
Im a big fan of heterosexual marriage myself, and a big fan of Mr. Valentine who at such insane risk of a government characterized globally both inside and outside the country as profoundly brutal, stood by and strongly obeyed his religious and personal convictions.
2006-10-08 02:38:55 · answer #2 · answered by Curly 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think it was actually an old fertility festival which the Christians usurped like they did with Easter and Christmas.
2006-10-08 02:32:23 · answer #3 · answered by San Diego Art Nut 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
hey shark bait.....don't sweat it....just have fun ok? Too much thinking and your grey matter will become mushy...... are ye smitten perhaps?
2006-10-09 10:23:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what saint and what date are you talking about?
2006-10-08 05:03:35 · answer #5 · answered by desert_kats 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋