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Originally Posted by Esaias
Valentine's Day is just another pagan tradition. Folks can google all the info they can digest. Of course, the whining about muh feelz and whut diff'rence does it make will be incessant, as usual. Meanwhile, the real world keeps on turning. Hope nobody is counting on their pension plan to be working in ten years.
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Excellent point.
Yes!
The Roman church did indeed use the Feast of St. Valentine to offer a Christian alternative to the pagan festival of Lupercalia (which began on February 15th not the 14th) in the hopes of "Christianizing" the culture.