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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 76115, member: 708&quot;]I generally take a dim view of Christianity during this early period. It was when they were trying to stamp out paganism and by doing so the either erradicated festivals or decided to take them over as their own and rewrite the history of it as if they&#039;d thought it up. It amounted to nothing more than institutionalised plagerism (the Romans had done this with the Greek religion though).</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps the most famous case of this was the festival of Lupercalia held in February. Which was about having fun, celebrating love, lust, heavy drinking and a good party, a chance for a knees up. And lets face it in those days life was much harder than it is now and thus can you imagine how nice it would be to let your hair down and have fun.</p><p><br /></p><p>The festival was immensley popular and the Church realised they&#039;d never be able to stamp it out thus they moved in, took it over, swept away much of the fun and the revelries and renamed it Valentine&#039;s day.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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