The really annoying thing about the fake Valentine's Day origin story is the sheer projection involved in believing the Roman state was ever *against* sex, marriage and family and the early Christians were *for* these thingshttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1228496840896598017 …
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The conservative moral panic at the time was the idea of disaffected young men getting into mystery cults around celibate heroes like Christ or Mithras and opting out of marriage and family life, possibly causing the population to crash and the state to collapse
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The same kind of moral panic the Chinese elite had to the introduction of Buddhism
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