Valentine Victims!

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So....is Groundhog Day pagan? :eek:

Please don't show me a video, where it exposes Groundhog Day as being pagan Richie!

I need one day, that isn't pagan, man. :(

Are Groundhogs pagan?

No groundhogs aren't pagan maybe good eatin I wouldn't know though about that.......Blond out.
 
Ok, SOMEBODY had to do it!

Groundhog Day........

Excerpt From Article:

The groundhog tradition stems from similar beliefs associated with Candlemas Day and the days of early Christians in Europe, and for centuries the custom was to have the clergy bless candles and distribute them to the people. Even then, it marked a milestone in the winter and the weather that day was important.

Found Here:

[h=3]Groundhog Day History[/h]

Please don't shoot the messenger.......
 
I celebrate it for the chocolate!!!! :) lol jk... does this make me a heathen now? don't answer that..lol.. just give me chocolate.. :o

I don't know about you but I am feeling so victimized by Valentine's Day now could you please pass me some of them there chocolates......thanks bunches....Lady Blue
 
I really don't care to know the pagan origins of Valentine's day so I will take a pass on the video. Seriously, who do you know who worships this valentine guy? It is about love and romance, flowers and chocolates. I understand that there are those who have never gotten a Valentine's day card but does that make them a victim? Everyone is a victim of circumstance in one way or another.
 
No one really knows the origin of Valentine's Day, but it is rumored that in 270 AD the Romans were persecuting Christian's. The Roman's were angry that people were giving up on the Roman God's and becoming Christians. Claudius II needed soldiers and married men wanted to stay with their families instead of becoming soldier's. So Claudius made a law banning marriage. There was a Priest named Valentine who married people in secret. He was found out and put in prison a tortured. Hence he was named the Priest of love, they named a special day after him, Valentine's day.

Another rumor, there was a Priest named Valentine who cured a girl of blindness, he was thrown in Prison for something, she wrote him a letter stuck in through the bars. He sent one back and signed it, Your Valentine.

Another rumor, The Roman Lupercalia, over 2,000 years ago Rome held a religious rite called Lupercalia. As part of the Lupercalia woman would let themselves be whipped with goat skins, (yuck) they thought it would please the God's and the God's would give them children.

Out of curiosity I studied a bit about Valentine's Day one year. Don't ask me why, I was just bored and I like history.
 
O.k. make sure we get the sad news out in ALL THE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES....it's not bad enough that you have taken the love and fun out of my Valentine spirit.... and make sure that there is no happiness in the only holiday that is an expression of love known by the masses.
 
O.k. make sure we get the sad news out in ALL THE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES....it's not bad enough that you have taken the love and fun out of my Valentine spirit.... and make sure that there is no happiness in the only holiday that is an expression of love known by the masses.



some people have to make sure they completely ruin it for the rest of us.. *sigh* :mad:
 
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Well this Christian man that well does things like fellowship with sinners, and going into the world outside of the Christian bubble, I know the horror of it all. Well call it Valentines day, Singles Awareness Day or even call it Make Your Gal Fell Special Day lol call it what you want but everyday of the year is important to show your special someone you love them, I tell you one thing I got a gift for my awesome girl (who I met on this site btw) and well I will just say yes I do not need a day that really don't matter if its Pagan or not to me cause I know it wont cause me to stumble in my faith such as eating meat sacrificed to other Gods, If a day like Valentines offends you still need the milk of the word
I am willing to go far as to say that day or holiday I can show Christ I will celebrate it
this is a moot argument
 
Well this Christian man that well does things like fellowship with sinners, and going into the world outside of the Christian bubble, I know the horror of it all. Well call it Valentines day, Singles Awareness Day or even call it Make Your Gal Fell Special Day lol call it what you want but everyday of the year is important to show your special someone you love them, I tell you one thing I got a gift for my awesome girl (who I met on this site btw) and well I will just say yes I do not need a day that really don't matter if its Pagan or not to me cause I know it wont cause me to stumble in my faith such as eating meat sacrificed to other Gods, If a day like Valentines offends you still need the milk of the word
I am willing to go far as to say that day or holiday I can show Christ I will celebrate it
this is a moot argument

Seeing how you have only written 2 posts in 2 1/2 years you are correct in that it is a 'mute' argument.
 
I love Valentine day and it's also a day too of how much Jesus loves us. Since I'm single I usually spend that day just spending more time with Jesus and yes I spend time with him every morning too :)
 
well I may have only 2 posts in the time I been here, but well I guess in times it is better to sit in silence and thought a idiot then open my mouth and prove it, and a lot of what I seen on this site proves people need to be in silence
 
speaking of valentines, the people who deliver my meals on wheels brought me one today with my meals for the weekend.. :) Here I was feeling bad for myself, dreading spending vday alone, and they remembered me.. :) I'm a happy ladybug now.. thank you lord, for sending those kind people to me with a special message of love.. :)
 
O.k. make sure we get the sad news out in ALL THE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES....it's not bad enough that you have taken the love and fun out of my Valentine spirit.... and make sure that there is no happiness in the only holiday that is an expression of love known by the masses.

Funny, I was just wondering if anyone had checked the Hebrew or Greek texts to see what they say about Valentines Day.....
 
Ok, SOMEBODY had to do it!

Groundhog Day........

Excerpt From Article:

The groundhog tradition stems from similar beliefs associated with Candlemas Day and the days of early Christians in Europe, and for centuries the custom was to have the clergy bless candles and distribute them to the people. Even then, it marked a milestone in the winter and the weather that day was important.

Found Here:

Groundhog Day History



Please don't shoot the messenger.......

Thanks p_rehbein.

Now,..... who's going to be the spoil-sport, and try to convince me that Halloween is pagan? :p