Posted on 02/08/2006 10:09:03 AM PST by conserv13
Valentine’s Day has become a day when merchants order people to give candy, cards and flowers to people they lust after. It is celebrated in our schools, and even children in pre-schools are encouraged to exchange valentines. But the real Valentine’s Day is not about cards, candy, flowers, and our romantic love for each other, but about God’s love and the martydom of a Catholic saint.
Why don’t most people know this? Because we’ve been leaving the saint out of Saint Valentine’s Day.
Secularists and merchants who make money off Saint Valentine’s Day want you to believe this day has nothing to do with Christianity. The same people who want us to wish each other “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas” want us to buy “Valentines Day” cards and gifts, and not “Saint Valentine’s Day” cards and gifts.
Secularists and commercial exploiters have succeeded into turning Saint Valentine’s Day into a holiday where Saint Valentine and Jesus Christ are never mentioned. Instead this is a day when we celebrate lust and even encourage children to take part. But we live in a Christian culture and there is more than one Christian holiday on our calendar. Just as all Christians demand that we remember that Jesus Christ is the reason we celebrate Christmas, Catholics demand that we remember that February 14 is Saint Valentine’s Day.
What can you do? Don’t buy cards that leave off the Saint. Don’t buy Valentines chocolates that leave off the Saint. And don’t shop at stores that leave off the Saint.
(Excerpt) Read more at waronstvalentinesday.com ...
Nah, it's not a satire, but it's also not a Catholic-teen-only effort. Got to be some humorless sourpuss adults driving this.
Conserv13, it's not satire -- they really mean it. And more power to 'em.
Whew! I'm safe. I'm shopping at St. Victoria's Secret.
I know about the history, but is this group really protesting this?
Wait until they see how people celebrate St. Patrick's Day!
Why not?
Yep, at the insistence of feminazis who maintain that "Valentine's Day" is somehow sexist.
So9
In Roman mythology, Cupid is the god of erotic love. He is equated with the Greek God Eros and one of his Latin names is Eros. He is also called Amor, Latin for love.
and:
In Ancient Rome, the day of February 15 was Lupercalia, the festival of Lupercus, the god of fertility, who was represented as half-naked and dressed in goat skins. As part of the purification ritual, the priests of Lupercus would sacrifice goats to the god, and after drinking wine, they would run through the streets of Rome holding pieces of the goat skin above their heads, touching anyone they met. Young women especially would come forth voluntarily for the occasion, in the belief that being so touched would render them fruitful and bring easy childbirth.
Leaving off the "saint" is not the most worrisome attack on the Christian aspect of this holiday. This is: http://www.vday.org/main.html.
Right now, at my "conservative" southern, state-run university, the campus is plastered with flyers for "The V----a Monologues," sponsored by the university's center for women's studies... Try explaining to your kid why they can't go see this play or what a v----a is.... Tasteless, tactless and just plain gross.
What is wrong with that?
I've never seen the Vagina Monologues and have no plan to. But you seem to think there's something inherently wrong with the word itself and/or explaining what it is to a child.
Better you should explain it than one of his/her school chums.
I don't think that there's anything wrong with the word.I simply choose not to use it with the realization that this site can be read by children of any age and I try to respect their presence by tempering my words. It's not my business to "educate" them on such matters.
I am not a teetotaller - I love theatre and appreciate that alot of entertainment with "adult" content. This particular play is rife with adult content (and just plain pointless perversion... but I digress) yet it is blanket-marketed to the public by the university. I don't think that I stand alone in my condemnation of such inconsideration. I totally agree with you that it is my (i.e. the family's) responsibilty to educate their child(ren) about such matters - that's what outrages me about the production (and its non-discriminating advertising).
I agree with you about the whole V-Day and V-Monologues stuff being tasteless. And I'm a woman. I also happened to participate for a time as part of an internet group that counseled women out of DV relationships. So I understand how things can go so far that women become man-haters. Still, all the V-stuff takes things way too far.
**What can you do? Don’t buy cards that leave off the Saint.**
BTTT
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