[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

Valentines day was invented by the leading nation of the axis of evil:

In Persian culture (Iran) Sepandarmazgan is a day for love, which is on 29 Bahman in the jalali solar calendar. The corresponding date in the Gregorian calendar is 17 February. Sepandarmazgan were held in the Great Persian Empire...hundreds of years before its acknowledgement by western world.

It's evil was contained, until an anti-security draft-dodger supporting CATHOLIC named "Saint Valentine" introduced into the west:

Saint Valentine takes us back to the 3rd Century, around 269 A.D. He was a Roman priest or bishop who performed weddings so that men could avoid being drafted into the Roman military. When the Roman Empire and legions needed soldiers to protect their ever-expanding territories beyond the Rubicon, Emperor Claudius II decreed that nobody could become engaged to be married! The Emperor had determined that married men made poor soldiers, so he banned marriage altogether from his Roman Empire. But Priest Valentine defied the Emperor's demand and married off many couples in castle basements and wine cellars. Valentine's action was considered to be an act of outright treason!

The "Heart", official symbol of Valentines Day, is a form of pornography, and a symbol for abortion:

What the traditional "heart shape" actually depicts is a matter of some controversy. It only vaguely resembles the human heart...

The "heart" shape could also be considered to depict features of the human female body, such as the female's pubic mound or spread vulva. The tantric symbol of the "Yoni" is another example of a heart-shaped abstraction of a woman's vulva. In fact, the symmetry resembles the vulva far more than the asymmetry of the organ. In the introduction to the Vagina Monologues Gloria Steinem writes, "[The heart] was reduced from power to romance by centuries of male dominance."

Others maintain that the heart resembles the shape of the female breasts or the female buttocks.

Another possible origin can be seen on the coins of the ancient city of Cyrene, some of which depict the seeds or fruit of the now-extinct silphium plant. The seeds are distinctly heart-shaped. Since this plant was widely used as an ancient herbal contraceptive or abortifacient, this shape may have come to be associated with sexuality and love.

Thus when children exchange heart-shaped "valentines" (often with members of the same sex!) they are actually participating in an Iranian-invented celebration of illegal draft dodging by giving each other pornography and mock abortion pills!

[Nobar King]

Praise you Brother Jeb for this insightful and educational message. This information seems to have been forgotten by the public in general.

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

Originally Posted by Nobar King

Praise you Brother Jeb for this insightful and educational message. This information seems to have been forgotten by the public in general.

I can't wait to see a catholic try to explain themselves out of this....

No, I'm not holding my breath.

[Nobar King]

A nice girl (who I've had my eyes on) at work was busy filling out a box of Valentine's day cards this week. We talked about it, she gushed that it is her FAVORITE holiday of all. When asked about my feelings about Valentines day I had to bite my tongue and not repeat what I had learned here. Inside, I really just wanted to expose the huge problem with her fixation.

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

Originally Posted by Nobar King

A nice girl (who I've had my eyes on) at work was busy filling out a box of Valentine's day cards this week. We talked about it, she gushed that it is her FAVORITE holiday of all. When asked about my feelings about Valentines day I had to bite my tongue and not repeat what I had learned here.

Women hate men who try to be "nice guys" and agree with everything they say. Don't believe feminist claptrap about "sensitive" guys who "cry at movies". Women crave men, and men behave like men.

Now go back there, tell her what JESUS thinks of her favorite holiday, and be ready to deal with the most spectacular outburst of harlotry you've ever seen.

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

This is why Saudi Arabia is our most trusted ally in the war on Islamofascism:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7239005.stm

Religious police in Saudi Arabia are banning the sale of Valentine's Day gifts including red roses, a local newspaper has reported.

The Saudi Gazette quoted shop workers as saying that officials had warned them to remove all red items including flowers and wrapping paper. Black market prices for roses were already rising, the paper said. Saudi authorities consider Valentine's Day, along with a host of other annual celebrations, as un-Islamic.

In addition to the prohibition on celebrating non-Islamic festivals, the authorities consider Valentine's Day as encouraging relations between men and women outside wedlock - punishable by law in the conservative kingdom.

...Others were planning to travel to the more religiously liberal neighbouring countries, Bahrain or the United Arab Emirates, to celebrate.

[Dr. Ernest C. Ville, D.C.S.]

You know, sometimes I wish America were more like Saudi Arabia -- they have their heads screwed on straight it seems, at least morally speaking. They keep prostitution and other by-products of Valentines Day under wraps and under control. Why can't we do that in America?!

[Billyjoe]

Get over it! Why cant you just take Valentines Day as a day to care for your loved ones???? You people make me sick! You read so far into the scriptures that you loose all reality! Get a life! Go out and get a root!

[Nobar King]

Despite all the warnings and against my better judgement, I accepted a date for VDay by one of my younger companions. She didn't want me to be home alone all night and was thoughtful enough to invite me to a dinner event. Things went well, and I even got a chance to dance! (If you know something about me, I like to dance.)

Anyway, dinner was over by 8:30 and I was home by 10:00. I couldn't have asked for a better time or a better companion. Lucky for me I didn't pick up any venerial diseases, although I did manage to steal a kiss before the night was over.

Hopefully they'll just cancel Valentine's day next year.

[Roberta]

Originally Posted by Billyjoe

Get over it! Why cant you just take Valentines Day as a day to care for your loved ones???? You people make me sick! You read so far into the scriptures that you loose all reality! Get a life! Go out and get a root!

A root? In spite of his hick name he must be an aboriginee!

[Trent Harvey, Jr.]

Originally Posted by Billyjoe

Get over it! Why cant you just take Valentines Day as a day to care for your loved ones????

Spoken like a true Islamofascism sympathizer.

Did you know that on eveyr Valentines day since 2003, there have been attacks on American soldiers in Iraq? EVERY VALENTINES DAY, without exception?

I suppose you think that's just a coincidence?

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

Once again, Saudi Arabia is the only place where one can find some morality:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7260314.stm


Saudi men arrested for 'flirting'


Relations between the sexes outside marriage is against the law


Prosecutors in Saudi Arabia have begun investigating 57 young men who were arrested on Thursday for flirting with girls at shopping centres in Mecca.

The men are accused of wearing indecent clothes, playing loud music and dancing in order to attract the attention of girls, the Saudi Gazette reported.

They were arrested following a request of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.

The mutaween enforce Saudi Arabia's conservative brand of Islam, Wahhabism.

Earlier in the month, the authorities enforced a ban on the sale of red roses and other symbols used in many countries to mark Valentine's Day.
The ban is partly because of the connection with a "pagan Christian holiday", and also because the festival itself is seen as encouraging relations between the sexes outside marriage, punishable by law in the kingdom.

The Prosecution and Investigation Commission said it had received reports of such "bad" behaviour by 57 young men at a number of shopping centres in the holy city of Mecca, the Saudi Gazette said.

The guardians of some of the men defended their actions, however, saying they would regularly get together at the weekend to have fun without ever violating laws governing the segregation of the sexes, it added.

So they're trying to defend theselves by claiming to be gay? First rule of getting out of a hole, sinners: STOP DIGGING!

[TrulyTolerant]

Originally Posted by Jeb Thurmond

I can't wait to see a catholic try to explain themselves out of this....

No, I'm not holding my breath.

I can think of an excellent argument on Catholics' behalf -- and NO, I'm not Catholic, I'm just a mediator. You can't blame the whole religion for the actions of one. That would be like us taking credit for everything Jesus did. I know plenty of Christians I'm not proud of sharing a religion with (however, they shall remain nameless; I pride myself in tact).

[Nobar King]

Originally Posted by TrulyTolerant

You can't blame the whole religion for the actions of one.

Sure you can. Take Islam, for example. I blame that religion on some dirt farmer named Muhamnad.

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

India's religious right stands up against Treason Season:

Hard-line Hindus protest Valentine's Day

NEW DELHI—India's Hindu hard-liners are showing no love for Valentine's Day. A few dozen protesters briefly blocked a road in downtown New Delhi on Wednesday, burning Valentine's Day cards and chanting "Down with Valentine." In the nearby city of Lucknow, extremists threatened to beat up couples found celebrating their love...

The protests by groups like Shiv Sena, who say they are defending traditional...values from...promiscuity....

"Our volunteers will check parks, hotels and restaurants and swoop upon young lovers found walking hand-in-hand," said Vijay Tiwari, a Shiv Sena activist in Lucknow.

In recent years, there have been several cases of couples being attacked while seeking privacy in local parks.

NOTE: Chatter from this thread has been moved HERE

[Tumpelritter]

Originally Posted by Jeb Thurmond

Valentines day was invented by the leading nation of the axis of evil:

It's evil was contained, until an anti-security draft-dodger supporting CATHOLIC named "Saint Valentine" introduced into the west:

Saint Valentine takes us back to the 3rd Century, around 269 A.D. He was a Roman priest or bishop who performed weddings so that men could avoid being drafted into the Roman military.

I´ve always guessed that catholics secretly support gay marriage; And they do it just to keep the military low of good soldiers. How many good, heterosexual men were prevented from joining the army by false religious leaders?

[dudeguy]

Valentine's Day is stupid for way more than religious reasons. It was invented by greeting card companies to make up for a lack of sales in the first quarter of the year.

[Cranky Old Man]

Originally Posted by dudeguy

Valentine's Day is stupid for way more than religious reasons. It was invented by greeting card companies to make up for a lack of sales in the first quarter of the year.

You are saying the right things. Unfortunately for the wrong reasons. Please get on your knees for Jesus Christ!

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

For those of you who have never seen a Valentine's Day card, these are some typical examples:

[Northsoul]

Never seen those cards, but the people in there are part of the joke, so don't take it seriously