Valentine Day Is Pagan
Posted on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 at 7:56 am
[First published in the blog to do things differently (www.doingthingsdifferently.blogspot.com) as post # 62 - Light Up The Night]
Something happened in 2008 and still crying. Even writing this blog entry this morning, I am sitting here crying.
The problem is the passage of Proposition 8, an amendment to the Constitution of the State of California to eliminate the rights of couples same sex who wish to marry. It is beautifully covered in an article by Brian Normoyle which informs us that this is the first time in America, which has a Current civil law has been abolished a group of citizens and asked the (terrible) Question: Whose rights are then?
I spent hours on YouTube watching images on this question, reading forums, chat with my friends about it. What surprises me the most immense outpouring of love surrounding the No on 8 campaign. Candlelight vigils, families who were peacefully demonstrating in the streets, signs saying: Love is the road. In this movement, I see people come together in love, regardless of their sexual orientation, to defend the basic human right to be accepted for who we are.
I remember trying to find a map of Valentine's Day The first year I was with Sam I am past by the rays, and all I could see were the men and women, male and female bears, bears. After spending the rest of my adult life in relationships with men, I suddenly realized I was different now - there's a big difference in how your love has been received by the world depends entirely on the gender of the person you fall in love.
A few months later I started work for an organization in Cambridge, which supported young people who are lesbians, gays and bisexual men. I found a community of adolescents were inspired rises gently toward the light, made with the underground and self-loathing. I saw their struggles - with its schools, their families, friends, I witnessed the strength and courage it took to say: "This is what I am." My job was sacred to me because it was to help young people find it easier to be themselves. To support research and deep acceptance of self is not shaken a world often filled with hate. Some young people were at our wedding in July. I think we can not underestimate the impact of their first hand of a love that identify supported and recognized by friends, family and the law of this country.
On December 20 there will be candlelight vigils across the country (and beyond) to recognize the rights of same-sex couples who are married and look forward to the day when those rights are available to all. At this time of year already cases of pagan and Christian origins, the light has always been invincible in the dark. As an activist Anne Lamott writes: "Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if only this and try to do the right thing, the dawn come. "
I see a sunrise when people hear this message, the heart of others to his:
Okay. Your heart is true. You can follow. We will support that.
Love is the road. Light up the night.
Doing things differently
1) What you want join with others about? What is the theme for 2008, which affected his heart? How does it feel passion, what drives you and motivates you to spread the word or do things differently?
2) Learn more about Proposition 8, if it is new to you. How do you feel about this issue? What you tell what you enjoy? And what do you do to honor those values more fully?
3) On December 20, light candles to commemorate a human right whose sacred - one that is now accepted, or one that is still not accorded to all peoples.
Extra - United We Love Search the song on YouTube - so beautiful.
(c) Corrina Gordon-Barnes
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Why do Christians continue to desecrate the pagan holidays like Christmas with the celebration of Christmas and ask them?
The best estimates, the birthday of Jesus as September 29. Placing a Christmas tree itself is an ancient pagan custom. Semana Santa (which can go up to 3 weeks before Easter) is full of pagan symbols like the Easter egg, the Easter Bunny. The word "Easter" itself has its origins in ancient Babylon. Other celebrations such as Valentine's Day, the eve of All Saints (Halloween), etc. all have similar origins. I realize that the early church was careful to incorporate the holiday was originally trying to convert the "heathen heretics. But Is not it more than now ...? Why not celebrate the birth of Christ in his real birthday, instead of spoilers for us? Do you think If I wrote a letter to the pope could help lol. Not that there is in these holy days and pagan customs go against their religion. That is to be in the Bible somewhere .....
+ + Christian Christmas celebrates the birth of Christ, God the Son. The angel said: "Be without fear, for behold, I announce the good news of great joy, which shall be to all people. For now, the city of David a Savior is born for you who is Messiah and Lord. And it's a sign you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger. "And suddenly there was a multitude of the heavenly host with the angel, praising God and saying: "Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men of good will." (Luke 2:10-14), Christmas is in no way a pagan festival. If a date near the winter solstice was chosen for Christmas to convert pagans Christianity easier then what's the harm? + Easter + English, the word "Easter" refers to Estre, a Teutonic (German) goddess daylight and rising spring. Nobody seems to know why the English word was used for the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. And it does not matter. The celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ took place long before the Christian non-English word "Easter" was used for the first time. And the celebration of the resurrection of Christ is directly related to the Jewish holiday of Easter dates back to about 3000 BC C. Most other languages use the word / Judeo-Christian for "Passover" for the great feast of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ that English speakers call "Santa Week. The Greek word for "Passover" is Paskha. It is the Aramaic form of Hebrew Pessah (Meaning Passover). Other languages: Afrikaans: Paasfees Albanian Pashket Breton Catalan Pask Seder: Pasqua Chamorro Cornish Pasgua: Pask Danish: Paaske Paske or Dutch: Pasen or Paschen Esperanto: Paskon edition: French pääsiäistä: Galician Easter: Easter Icelandic: Paska Indonesia: Paskah Italian: Pasqua Jersey: Easter Latin: Pascha Norwegian: Portuguese Paske Páscoa Scottish Pask Sicilian Spanish Pasqua: Easter swahili: pasaka edition: Påsk Welsh PNAS Even in the German provinces of Bas-Rhin, where the Teutonic goddess Estre had its origins, people call the festival Paisken not Ostern. With love in Christ.
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