Valentine’s Day is the greatest sacrilege in the history of humankind. Why do I say this? Because Valentine’s Day was originally celebrated in the memory and in the honor of Saint Valentine, who was a bishop and a Christian saint. But today, this Valentine’s Day has become a symbol of lust, sexual immorality, exploitation of females, and in fact, foolishness.
The History of Valentine’s Day
Saint Valentine, a Christian saint, was born in Italy. At that time, there was a Roman king named Claudius, who was obsessed with power and expanding his kingdom. He wanted to employ all men in his army, but the problem was that there was a rule that people who were married at that time were free to choose whether to go to battle or not. So, to avoid that and to recruit everybody in his army, he banned marriage laws. This promoted sexual immorality, promiscuity, and also exploitation of females.
People simply became animals, and this troubled Saint Valentine, because he saw this as completely against the laws and principles of the Bible and the principles of religion. He started preaching that people should be married and be responsible couples. Why did he preach this? Because the love between couples was a shadow, a resemblance, of the love of God. That’s what he understood by reading the Bible and practicing Christianity. And it makes sense, because the love of God is love, and love means responsibility. Love is not simply sex. God is responsible for delivering the devotee, and the devotee is responsible for upholding the laws of God and the honor of God in this world. So, both are responsible to each other, and that makes love. And that is reflected in marriage.
When people are married couples, how long does the thrill of sex last? It is for a year or so, and then it fades or is surpassed by love, where each couple is responsible to each other and they take care of children. That is what love is, and that love is a semblance of the love of God. That’s what Saint Valentine understood, and that is why he was preaching. He was marrying youths in the church and convincing them to lead a good life. He told them not to be like animals, not to just choose one female after another. He married so many people in the kingdom, and obviously, Claudius got mad. He got Saint Valentine decapitated, and that day, all his followers, whom he married and preached the love of God to, started remembering Saint Valentine. People almost canonized him that day, when he was decapitated. February 14th, this day comes, and they celebrate this day in his remembrance. And that’s where the birth of Valentine’s Day happened.
The Reality of Valentine’s Day Today
Today, Valentine’s Day has reduced the love of God to the love of flesh. Today’s Valentine’s Day has reduced a responsible, loving marriage to an irresponsible, promiscuous sexuality, illicit sex, and even divorces. Today’s Valentine’s Day has reduced the security of females to the exploitation of females. And then, on Valentine’s Day, a boy chooses a girl and a girl chooses a boy, and then they have sex, and then the girl becomes pregnant, and the boys are no longer interested in that female, and the female has to take care of her baby. This is what today’s Valentine’s Day is. And last but not least, today’s Valentine’s Day has reduced wisdom to foolishness.
The Wastage of Money on Valentine’s Day
On Valentine’s Day, the USA spends 20 billion US dollars and Europe and now even India and eastern countries spend billions and trillions of dollars in buying roses, Valentine cards, and makeup kits. They spend trillions of dollars in one day on these frivolous activities.
You can spend the same money in one day on more noble causes. WHO and UNESCO are crying for donations and money so that they can donate blood to sick people and treat sick people and then poverty and so many issues. But people ignore them and waste their money on Valentine’s Day.
The Loss of Values on Valentine’s Day
This is foolishness to actually spend your entire day in flirting with females and with males. Is this what you want to do in life?
You can spend an entire day maybe in fulfilling your own dreams, your own plans in life, your future plans, working on that. Or better than that, you can spend one day in spirituality and understanding meaningful questions in your life, in giving a thought to existential questions of life: who am I, who is God, what is life? These are questions which are worth pursuing and spending your day in spirituality.
This is the foolishness of Valentine’s Day which has made us forget all these values of life and has reduced us to almost foolish animals running after sex and flesh. That’s all.
The Appeal to Reject Valentine’s Day
So, my request is: don’t fall into this trap of Valentine’s Day. Tell others not to celebrate this Valentine’s Day because this day is evil and sacrilegious. It’s not that we don’t celebrate love, it’s that we don’t want any other people to celebrate Valentine’s Day because it harms the country and it harms the individual lives of people.