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Do you celebrate valentine's day?

The Festival of Love was one of the festivals of the pagan Romans, when paganism was the prevalent religion of the Romans more than seventeen centuries ago. In the pagan Roman concept, it was an expression of “spiritual love”.

There were myths associated with this pagan festival of the Romans, which persisted with their Christian heirs. Among the most famous of these myths was the Roman belief that Romulus, the founder of Rome, was suckled one day by a she-wolf, which gave him strength and wisdom.

The Romans used to celebrate this event in mid-February each year with a big festival. One of the rituals of this festival was the sacrifice of a dog and a goat. Two strong and muscular youths would daub the blood of the dog and goat onto their bodies, then they would wash the blood away with milk. After that there would be a great parade, with these two youths at its head, which would go about the streets. The two youths would have pieces of leather with which they would hit everyone who crossed their path. The Roman women would welcome these blows, because they believed that they could prevent or cure infertility.

men also picked women and had sex with them, had orgys, got drunk...

and if u think about it valentines day has caused harm to our society, more people get raped on valentines day, more highway accidents, more abortions after valentines day due to getting raped, drunk people,...is this something u support?

also watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoxuYJIaX%E2%80%A6

a graduate from the University of Waterloo with a PHD in histroy explains you Valentine's day origin, u can also google it.

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  • 9 years ago
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    Do you celebrate Christmas? It also has its origins in a "pagan" Roman holiday, not to mention the fact that sacrifice of animals was once encouraged by the Christian god. Also, more people die in road accidents, at least in my country, during Christmas than any other time of year.

    The origins of a holiday have very little to do with why people actually celebrate it.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    this has nothing to do w biblical christianity.

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