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HaPPY VaLeNTiNe'S DaY
Categories: god, forty-blogs-of-lent
Tags: Christianity, Bible
Date: 14 February 2013 02:44:33
HaPPY VaLeNTiNe'S DaY
Forty blogs of Lent
Day 2
Who was Valentine? And how is his saint's day associated with red roses and chocolate?
The short answer is nobody knows.
What we do know is that Valentine was a real person, matyred near Rome in the mid 200s. Som say he was caught because he married Christian couples, but this is likely to be a later addition to the story.
So why celebrate a third century saint by giving price inflated gifts for a loved one. Again there is a short answer, and my short answer is I don't care. Any excuse to tell someone you love that you love them is fine by me.
God is not against love, there is a whole book in the Old Testament, The Song of Solomon, which is about love, erotic in parts too.
So let's celebrate love.