Saint Valentine of Rome 🫀
Apparently, it’s Valentine’s Day. Whatever that means. Celebrate love? Never heard of it. Apparently, Saint Valentine was an individual who was beaten and murdered. Now, we celebrate him by sending roses and chocolates to loved ones. To be fair, I don’t know much about him. I would have to do research in order to better understand what the man was all about. Like most Western holidays, there is probably little to zero original meaning behind it all. Seriously. We here in the West have a tremendous passion for taking things completely out of context, and creating them into some form of false idol. Santa Claus is probably a good example. Christ, even the Easter Bunny can fall into that trap. The truth is, we over-celebrate everything, with false icons and idols, driving up consumerism. What a world, eh? One of the things about our Western culture, especially as of late, is we have dedicated some sore of celebration ...