Just a reminder that St. Valentine's Day is actually about a Christian priest who died defending the sanctity of marriage and no one except married heterosexual couples should be celebrating it. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
#ValentineIsComing
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Replying to @jessibridges
Lol, pretty much. It's not that I'm against love and everyone sharing cards and candy with each other but there is such a deeper meaning to the day and what Valentine died for that gets neglected.
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Replying to @wife_ofbrian
I’m with you 100% There’s pretty much zero knowledge of the history behind it.
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Replying to @jessibridges
Yep! It's sad too because it's such an inspiring story!
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Replying to @wife_ofbrian @jessibridges
That doesn’t sound inspiring it sounds bigoted but okay
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Replying to @DanDanTransient @Brivado and
Also the first association between the saint and love was courtly Iove in the middle ages, which is not about marriage at all but about pining for a mistress who was often a married women.
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Replying to @AlexandraErin @DanDanTransient and
Yeah the first version of a legend trying to link him to romance (which was over a thousand years after he died irl) was changing the legend of him healing the blind girl to say he was in love with her and wrote her a love confession before he was martyred
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And, you know, forbidden love makes a great story but really isn't as wholesome as OP wants it to be
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexandraErin and
Much *more* wholesome than "the sanctity of heterosexual marriage", imo
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