The reasons we do not celebrate Valentine’s Day
are:
1)Christians are told to actively flee sexual
immorality (1 Cor 6:18). Valentine’s Day was
a “Chrisitanized” version of a February pagan
holiday celebrating eroticism (sexual lust) and
fertility. That much, is pretty much a fact and
universally accepted. Although I admit the
fact that we do not know which “St.
Valentine” we are attempting to
commemorate, even your Gospel Coalition
article concedes that, “It was 469 when
‘Valentine’ was given a feast day, in the hopes
of replacing February’s pagan feasts of love
and fertility with a theme of Christian love
and martyrdom” (emphasis mine). Hence, it
is beyond dispute that it was a “holiday”
created to replace a day of rampant sexual
immorality in the Western World.


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2) The argument that, “Well, Christmas replaced
what was once a pagan holiday” does not hold
weight because Christmas does not hold any
remnants of the pagan holiday that it
supposedly replaced (the modern Valentine’s
Day is still a celebration of eroticism–not
Christian martyrdom). Irrespective of when
Christ came, we know for sure that He
did come. Hence, in celebrating Christmas,
we celebrate the birth of Jesus–not the date
nor the time of year. It may very well have
replaced a pagan holiday, but it’s called
Christmas for a reason.
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. 3.)As born-again, Reformed believers, we do not
celebrate any of the “feast days” of Roman
Catholic/Early Church saints. If one
celebrates the “feast day” of St. Valentinus,
then why does one not celebrate the “feast
days” of all the other Roman Catholic/Early
Church “saints?” The Roman Catholics are at
least consistent. They celebrate them all.
Why are we just picking the feast day of Saint
Valentinus?
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. 5)Unhealthy secular peer pressure for our
youth. Say what you want about “redeeming”
the holiday for our Christian youths, the fact
of the matter is that when you’re a Christian
kid in a secular high school and all your peers
are getting Valentines and “getting laid,”
Christianity and the “redemptive” nature of
Valentine’s Day tends to take a back seat.
(And I mean way back.)
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5 Don’t forget how much unwarranted pressure
unmarried, single Christians feel on
“Valentine’s Day.” They probably feel
incomplete, incompetent, and intolerable on
February 14th. You can only imagine…