(Ahem) Sound similar to a question that atheists are asked every 5 minutes?
2006-12-23 16:12:23 · 21 answers · asked by Haiku Hanna 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Um, the POINT is that it echoes the questions that christians ask about non-christians celebrating Christmas. These answers apply to that as well.
2006-12-23 16:18:18 · update #1
Valentines day is a mostly secular holiday these days, just like Christmas. So anybody can celebrate it.
2006-12-23 16:16:26 · answer #1 · answered by nondescript 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Valentine's Day is a christian holdover from the Roman circumstances while Feb. fifteenth (or thereabouts) replaced into celebrated by using fact the day all of the birds in Rome had intercourse to start the spring-time beginning of the chicks some weeks later. Christians, as with lots of the vacations celebrated interior the liturgical calendar, appropriated pagan holidays and grew to become them into banquet days to get individuals to church and drop a coin interior the basket. In our day, we are celebrating the human male's reason of bribing women those with dinner, plant existence and chocolate do have intercourse, in basic terms by using fact the birds of Rome did 1900 years in the past.
2016-10-18 22:38:39 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Popular culture consistently tries to "steal" holy days and make them secular holidays.
This happens with Christmas, Easter, Mardi Gras (the day before Lent starts), Halloween (the eve of All Saints Day), St. Valentine's Day, and St. Patrick's day.
Popular culture lets you celebrate the holidays as long as they take all religion out of them.
It is an ongoing effort to keep God and faith involved in these holy days.
With love in Christ.
2006-12-24 17:45:32 · answer #3 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why do Christians celebrate Christmas! It was stolen by Christians from Pagans like many of the christian celebrations.
2006-12-25 02:08:42 · answer #4 · answered by Stef 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Though the celebration of Saints' martyrdom is a Catholic Ritual; this particular one has become more associated with Lovers than with Religion.
For that matter Christmas, with all the ramifications of it's being the Roman Saturnalia and so on, has become a Cosmopolitan event of exchanging gifts and being the Season of Good Cheer, rather than the celebration of Christs birthday.
Those who want to scream "No fair" till their faces are blue are welcome to carry on doing that; but, it won't change things one little bit.
Merry Christmas!!!!
2006-12-23 16:19:39 · answer #5 · answered by Daimyo 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i actually don't know. but i do celebrate valentines day and x-mas and i'm not christian. it's just fun i guess. if u were in other country, u would celebrate their holidays. for example, i'm indian and in india, everyone celebrates Diwali cuz majority of indian r hindu. cuz it's fun dressing up and stuff. and not many ppl know about x-mas. here majority is christian, so ppl celebrate christian holidays. u get the point.
2006-12-23 16:27:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ah, like it is fun. And atheists do NOT have any religious connotation to St Valentine's Day, usually just want their loved one to know that they are thinking of them, etc. Also,it has become more of a secular holiday, period.
BTW: ditto Christmas, which has become simply a Shopping frenzy and conspicuous consumerism.
2006-12-23 16:23:22 · answer #7 · answered by mountain woman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uhm, Catholics celebrate St Valentines day Its a special day for all loved ones not religious
2006-12-23 16:16:32 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because the candy and greeting card companies make it seem like there's something wrong with us if we don't celebrate St. Valentine's day, just like the beer companies make us think there's something wrong with us if we don't celebrate St. Patricks day... same thing goes for non-Mexicans celebrating Cinqo de Mayo...
2006-12-23 16:19:34 · answer #9 · answered by dcgirl 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the same reason they celebrate St. Patrick's day and Mardi Gras. (which is a celebration before the season of Lent starts)
an excuse to celebrate
2006-12-23 16:20:35 · answer #10 · answered by musicgirl31♫ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋