You heard him! Keep your children at home and don't tolerate any vulgarity!
Um, likely not, Og dearest. Arguably (but, granted, not provably) appropriated from the Roman-pagan festival of Lupercalia. Rather like Christmas and Halloween, pagan holidays appropriated by Christians. Again, there's no absolute proof of this, but there is a chance that it was by no means Christian until the church decided there was no stamping out the festival celebrating this pagan day, and so made it Christian so those celebrating would be celebrating a Christian holiday instead.
Um, likely not, Og dearest. Arguably (but, granted, not provably) appropriated from the Roman-pagan festival of Lupercalia. Rather like Christmas and Halloween, pagan holidays appropriated by Christians. Again, there's no absolute proof of this, but there is a chance that it was by no means Christian until the church decided there was no stamping out the festival celebrating this pagan day, and so made it Christian so those celebrating would be celebrating a Christian holiday instead.
I've no problems with it being secularized and/or made multi-cultural-spiritual myself. If the Christians could appropriate pagan holidays for their purposes, I see no reason why other religions shouldn't do the same with Christian holidays. That, after all, is what we humans do. We steal, transform, and re-create. We stole plenty from the Hindus, including Cupid (the god Kama). So, we're just giving him back with Valentine's day.
If there is, as Christians believe, only one god and that god made all, then aren't all forms of worship towards that divinity, including a celebration of love, one as well?
It's said that god is the top of the mountain. When you're at the base of that mountain, it seems that your religion and others are far apart. As you go up the mountain, however, they get more and more alike, and closer and closer together till, at the top, they're all one.
And here I thought Valentine's Day was another mandatory day for getting laid. Damn, losing all those important days of the year.
Maybe we need a PC correction for the day and make it that all couples must go in private and do it in the name of Allah, them slap a sticky heart on each other's forehead.
Vishnu, Royce, Vishnu! Not Allah. Sheesh, get South Asia straight.
Maybe it's just me, but it seems that there's always some 'radical' ethnic and/or religious group bitching about most holidays...now it's Valentine's Day? Sheesh!
Fuck this 'It offends my (insert name of god here)' and all this PC crap! Let's have fun on holidays, not whine and complain about them. Hell, it's a day off, why ruin it.
Wow, talk about liberal, lmao.
You get Valentine's Day off? I'm coming to your country.
Although I do like the idea of slapping a little heart on my forehead to say I got laid.
They made up this new one for Feb. called Family Day. Sort of a love your family day, cuz you hate them the other 364 days of the year, lmao. For the life of me, I can't understand why they haven't come up with one for June. Why can't the first day of Summer be a good reason to have a National holiday? Maybe a, National Naked Day
JK
See, there ya go. If Hitler would have won, we'd all be healthy naked Germans.
Um, likely not, Og dearest. Arguably (but, granted, not provably) appropriated from the Roman-pagan festival of Lupercalia. Rather like Christmas and Halloween, pagan holidays appropriated by Christians. Again, there's no absolute proof of this, but there is a chance that it was by no means Christian until the church decided there was no stamping out the festival celebrating this pagan day, and so made it Christian so those celebrating would be celebrating a Christian holiday instead.
I've no problems with it being secularized and/or made multi-cultural-spiritual myself. If the Christians could appropriate pagan holidays for their purposes, I see no reason why other religions shouldn't do the same with Christian holidays. That, after all, is what we humans do. We steal, transform, and re-create. We stole plenty from the Hindus, including Cupid (the god Kama). So, we're just giving him back with Valentine's day.
If there is, as Christians believe, only one god and that god made all, then aren't all forms of worship towards that divinity, including a celebration of love, one as well?
It's said that god is the top of the mountain. When you're at the base of that mountain, it seems that your religion and others are far apart. As you go up the mountain, however, they get more and more alike, and closer and closer together till, at the top, they're all one.
Granted, but one can hardly look at an Indian wedding where the father of the bride has (traditionally and for a very long time) had a procession displaying in public each dowry item he is giving to the groom, the richer and more impressive the display the better, and say that consumerism, kitsch and fakelore is somehow a western and imported tradition. Such processions now include refrigerators and televisions, but westerners didn't create that tradition.
No, it's not. Not if the candies in the heart-shaped boxes are made in India by Indians. And most especially not if certain western imports are giving Indian's jobs at the expense of the west. India's has a whole rising middle class, educated, trained, and employed thanks to outsourcing--and the west is sinking. And the result may be that they survive and we do not.
No one say you had to be backwards. I certainly didn't. I would say that you have to be a little blind and stupid. And the two aren't quite the same. There is a local town near me that doesn't want chain restaurants on it like McD's and has an ordnance that, in fact, keeps such restaurants off it's main street. But that doesn't mean it's residents are threatening to attack, yell it, shame or abuse anyone visiting a chain restaurant. The Parisians can make what laws they like about where a McD's can be but it still exists in Paris.
Dude. You've got the argument backward. These Hindu radicals in India (they're not in "tolerant" U.S.) are acting EXACTLY like Christains who want Christmas To be Christmas not "happy holidays,".
