Religion on Valentine's Day

Religion on Valentine's Day

Some religions refrain from celebrating Feb. 14 as a holiday because the origin of the holiday is not of their faith. While Christians celebrate this holiday, other religions feel the need to shun it.

History plays a major role in religions:

The history of Valentine's Day is definitely a reason in which some religions choose to overlook Valentine's Day as a real holiday.
Valentine's Day, which is really St. Valentine's Day, is of Christian tradition. Two saints whom were imprisoned and killed for being Christians in the third century attributed to the naming of the holiday.

While imprisoned, one of the saints wrote a letter to his jailer's daughter who often visited him. He signed the note 'Your Valentine." It was 'Christianized' in honor of the martyrdom of St. Valentine in A.D. 270, who, during medieval  times, was known for uniting lovers under stringent conditions.

Although origins of Valentine's Day have nothing to do with Judaism, St. Valentine exemplified two sentiments with which Judaism would never quibble, love for god and others.

The religion of Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people, based on principles and ethics embodied in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh). Valentine's Day is a touchy subject in Jewish eyes because it goes back to the mid-fourteenth century, tens of millions of Europeans were dying from the plague; rumors were rampant that Jews dreamed up the disease to poison Christians. In Strasbourg, a mob used this as an excuse in 1349 to exterminate local Jews to whom they owed massive debts. About 2,000 Jews were rounded up and burned to death on a platform in the local Jewish cemetery.

San Valentin, had a beginning based on religion which in some countries took repercussion and in others I take a reprisal. A respect for the dead which originated this day and an honor to the dead
Certain countries are very much based on religion and in other cases they are secular.

Source: http://www.southerndigest.com/article_3bcfe8ad-7fbf-5c6c-a400-46cde8907d8e.html


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