PROMO: Valentine's Day On Trial - Discover Its TRUE Origins - Jim Staley 2024
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- Where does Cupid come from, and why is a false god part of a feast celebrated by Christians? How is it connected to the animal sacrifice rituals of ancient Rome, and why did the Catholic Church choose to adopt this holiday, adding a saint to it and making it their own?
It's time to go deep into the evidence and discover the REAL origins of Valentine’s Day. Take a step into the pages of history as we journey back in time to the foundation of Rome, uncovering the truth behind this famous love, lust and sexual desire celebration!
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Valentines day . Was never a great day for me . I never got cards or gifts . I was considered too ugly to be worthy of it ( those that said that were shallow and wrong ), And now I am glad . Because God does not approve of it . They made me take Gods side .
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Great Truths are coming up can't wait to see my friend
Allllllllllll wordly holidays are pagan. Satan is a counterfeit..He knows God appointed his HOlYdays so satan needed to appoint his own…xmas easter etc
I love you achoti(brother in Hebrew)
We will be waiting
Lupercalia!
???? where's the documentary ?
When?
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Valentines not from God
Pagan
Sounds like it will be the typical nonsense one sees every year at this time - the holiday's supposed "pagan" origin. Keep in mind the following:
The main objection by conservative Christians against the celebration of Valentine’s Day is its alleged origins in the Roman Lupercalia. The ancient festival’s association with fertility rituals has only added fuel to this idea.
Perhaps the most difficult aspect of researching the origin of holidays, is sifting through all the data and separating what is historical _fact_ from the myth, legend, and religious paranoia of what is historical _fiction._
Many of these ill- researched ‘’facts’, suppositions, and assumptions concerning the supposed origins of many holidays have been repeated for so long, they have essentially become accepted as truth. One can find these asserted ‘facts’ in everything ranging from various educational websites, to entries in dictionaries and encyclopedias, and even in (some) scholarly articles.
What we find after close examination and scrutiny, however, is that the accepted origin of many holidays comes from the latter (historical fiction), rather than the former (historical fact).
With respect to the Lupercalia-Valentine’s connection, most scholars would argue that there is absolutely no connection between the two whatsoever.
Lupercalia was celebrated from the 13th to the 15th of February. But here’s the thing - Lupercalia was a very local thing; it was held almost _exclusively_ in Rome. There are only scant references to it being held anywhere else. It was not at all a Roman Empire-wide celebration; thus, could not have possibly been the seeding of some sort of “proto-Valentine’s Day” across Europe. Further, there are no historical records of Lupercalia being celebrated more recent than the end of the 5th century. Further, Lupercalia had very little to do with romance.
The purpose of Lupercalia was thought to be to cleanse the city (Rome) of evil spirits and usher in the spring, the time for fertility in animals and, it may have been thought, humans as well.
What is known about Lupercalia is that it started with an act of sacrifice. Priests of the god Lupercus, called the Luperci, would take off their clothes and slaughter 2 goats and a dog in the Lupercal, the cave that Roman legend held to have been the location where city founders Romulus and Remus were nursed by a wolf. After the animals were sacrificed, the Luperci would then cut the goat’s skin into strips and run around the Palatine Hill in Rome, striking women with them.
One plausible reason for this was because Lupercalia ushered in the spring, the mating season for many animals, the festival was thought to enable or facilitate fertility. If you were struck by a Lupercus, one of the priests, it was considered that you would give birth to more children. The whipping/beating was not harsh or sadistic in nature, but rather a light, more symbolic “beating” typically done on the woman’s hands. Contemporary writers described women as “presenting their hands to the Luperci.”
It has also been suggested that a plausible theory for the whipping was that it served as an initiation, as ritualized “sexual play” that marked a boy’s transition into adulthood. There is even evidence that the Romans themselves were puzzled by the naked priests’ behavior.
Mosaics and reliefs from the period depicted instances of women, sometimes stripped naked, accepting the “blows” - which is unsurprising given the fertility aspect of the festival.
There is zero historical evidence that the Lupercalia was any sort of “wild sex party” during which fornication and orgies were the norm. There is no evidence to suggest that sex was at all a part of the Lupercalia. That seems to be absolute nonsense invented in the 19th century.
Another presumed aspect of the festival that seems to prevail in many modern descriptions is the idea that there would have been a matchmaking lottery of sorts, which supposedly featured girls writing their names on paper that would be drawn from a box or a jar by boys, and the couples would be paired up. This supposition is often cited as further evidence of the connection between the ancient festival and Valentine’s Day.
There is, however, absolutely zero historical records that suggest boys being paired randomly with girls for participation in the ritual. Indeed, most scholars agree that the concept that Lupercalia featured girls writing their names on paper that would be drawn from a box by boys is likely an 18th-century invention that developed from the English custom of doing the same which seems to have originated in the late 1400’s.
As historian Ronald Hutton notes in his book, _The Stations of the Sun,_ in England, ‘Valentines’ and tokens of affection were chosen/given as a matter of personal affection; however, by the late 1400’s amongst the nobility, the recipient of the Valentine’s token was sometimes chosen by lot. One would draw a name written on a long strip of paper from a box. The paper with the name on it was then worn in one’s hat band. The person whose name was written on the paper would become that person’s “Valentine” for the day. It is not possible to say if this custom eventually trickled down through societal classes down to the peasantry. By the Stuart period, both choices (personal affection and by lot) for choosing one’s Valentine were still practiced and some poets and writers of the time mocked those who chose by lot rather than personal affection. By 1641, the system of lots to choose one’s Valentine was also well known in Edinburgh. By the mid-17th century, the tradition had become quite popular, reaching to the highest levels in society. In 1668 for example, the Duke of York, heir to the throne, gave a jewel as a Valentine, chosen by lot, to Lady Frances Stewart, a current “court beauty.” This custom of choosing one’s Valentine via lots eventually died out at the end of the 19th century.
In short, the custom of choosing one’s Valentine by lot originated in England around the 1400’s, *not* the Roman Lupercalia.
The earliest attested historical record of the Lupercalia comes from the 3rd century BCE, while the last record was from the end of the 5th century CE - around the same time Pope Gelasius I made February 14 into a day that would honor the Christian martyr, Saint Valentine.
At no point however does Gelasius speak of compromise, or of adapting any pagan customs. Even though they weren’t far apart chronologically, the supposed symbolic overlap between the two took centuries more to develop, as Valentine’s Day hadn’t yet acquired the romantic meaning it has today. That would only come about 1,000 years later. In the early church, the Feast of St. Valentine would have been a solemn celebration; not the holiday it is today. Indeed, it is quite possible that Gelasius was partly responsible for Lupercalia’s decline.
Without this ritual of a supposed lottery at the Roman festival, there appears to be little correlation between the Lupercalia and Valentine’s Day. Further, though there is a calendar overlap, there is zero historical evidence to suggest that one was replaced by another. It is vitally important when writing about traditions to remember that there are only 365 days in the year ... calendar overlap, when it occurs, does not equate to any degree of significance; it’s going to happen.
Most mainstream historians agree that Valentine’s Day and romance became associated with each other only in the late 14th century. That’s a pretty huge gap between the late 1300’s and the end of Lupercalia in the 400’s. A thousand year gap where nothing resembling Lupercalia or romance and Valentine’s Day is historically recorded. Almost 1,000 years of complete silence - it strains credulity to suggest the two are in any way related.
The association between Valentine’s Day and romance It is thought to have arisen specifically because of the popularity of a few Geoffrey Chaucer’s poems, namely, "Parliament of Foules (Fowls)" and “The Complaint of Mars” which both associated Valentine’s Day and romance. At the time of Chaucer's writing, February 14 also happened to be considered the first day of spring in Britain, because it was the beginning of birds' mating season-perfectly appropriate for a celebration of affection. In addition, this was also the time of a concept known as “courtly love” in Europe.
Given the above, it would seem, under closer examination, that a supposed connection between Valentine’s Day and the Roman Lupercalia lies solely within the realm of some very wishful thinking.
The idea that Christian holidays are ‘pagan’ in origin actually comes from die-hard Protestant fundamentalists in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. One particularly influential writer was Alexander Hislop (1807-1865), a minister for the Free Church of Scotland who published a pamphlet in 1853 titled _The Two Babylons._ In this pamphlet, Hislop claimed that Roman Catholicism is really nothing more than re-branded Babylonian paganism and that all the holidays associated with Catholicism are actually ancient Babylonian religious festivals in honor of the heathen gods. Hislop was a zealot, vehemently anti-Catholic, and a crank whose ideas had almost no factual basis whatsoever, but his work became extremely influential among Protestant fundamentalists. It’s all utter nonsense.
Not celebrating Valentine’s Day because of its alleged association with Lupercalia (i.e., that it has a supposed pagan origin) holds absolutely no historical validity whatsoever, yet some religious denominations just can’t seem to let go of this false and completely erroneous connection.
The Father has given 7 specific "appointed times" (holidays!) in his Word. Valentines is not one of them. One cannot go wrong in keeping with his appointed festivals, and disregarding the rest.
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Sure, if you're Jewish.
All the real history was probably destroyed by the Catholic church (like most history that opposed them) or it is hidden at the Vatican like they do with a lot of their "secret" history.
So, we may never know the full story on this side of eternity.
However, if you want to be like the Catholic church and worship saint valentine on his day, then you would still be breaking the second commandment by worshipping your idol on his day.
It's satanic no matter what angle you come from.
@@StevePenny-bc5mytrue that friend.
I would suggest either use those holidays or don't conform to any other holiday outside of what God has appointed.
That was the whole point of Paul saying not to judge according to observance of Holy Days.
This is due to gentiles not being aware of Jewish festivals and how to conduct them.
Yet, he is not co-signing or talking about pagan festivals like Christmas or Easter... Etc..
Who cares. Stop with dishing every holiday
God cares. take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.’ You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way; for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
“Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it.