{"id":119,"date":"2004-02-15T06:26:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-15T06:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2004-02-15T06:26:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-15T06:26:00","slug":"119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Saint Valentine . . . the pagan?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Islamic clerics in Saudi Arabia (our good friends, the Saudis) denounce Valentine’s Day<\/a> as a “pagan Christian holiday” and forbid its celebration in the kingdom. Other news reports speak of reprisals against shop owners selling Valentine’s Day items. Ah, wonderful, a jihad<\/em> against hearts and flowers. More here<\/a>: scroll down.<\/p>\n

Valentine’s Day was just fine in this Pagan household, thanks for asking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saint Valentine . . . the pagan? Islamic clerics in Saudi Arabia (our good friends, the Saudis) denounce Valentine’s Day as a “pagan Christian holiday” and forbid its celebration in the kingdom. Other news reports speak of reprisals against shop owners selling Valentine’s Day items. Ah, wonderful, a jihad against hearts and flowers. More here: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-119","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3317,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3317","url_meta":{"origin":119,"position":0},"title":"Does Halloween Fill a “Spiritual Vacuum”?","author":"Chas S. 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Clifton","date":"February 18, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"After reading the Call for Papers, now is the time to submit proposals for the Contemporary Pagan Studies Group's sessions at the American Academy of Religion annual meeting. We have two topics this year: What does Pagan studies offer to academic analysis and critique? How do historical constructions of \u201cpaganism\u201d\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"academia\"","block_context":{"text":"academia","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=academia"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":774,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=774","url_meta":{"origin":119,"position":2},"title":"Gallimaufry","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 3, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Sgt. Patrick Stewart's memorial pentacle makes the Associated Press newsfeed. That lawsuit against the VA is getting national media attention.Two more sites aggregating Pagan-related news items: Green Viking News and The Pagan Activist.Find the god you need at God Checker.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10752,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10752","url_meta":{"origin":119,"position":3},"title":"A Little-Known Welsh Magical Practice","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 2, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Burying large reptiles under the floor. It must be a \"Pagan survival,\" right? Doubtlessly an apotropaic custom, like scorch marks on wooden beams as charm against fire, or leaving old shoes and such inside the walls during construction.","rel":"","context":"In \"animals\"","block_context":{"text":"animals","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=animals"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/caiman.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10622,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10622","url_meta":{"origin":119,"position":4},"title":"Quick Review: “The Pagan King”","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"June 15, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"My \"Pagan-ish\" blog tag seems mostly to go to Latvian materials, and here is another one, The Pagan King. Set in the 13th century, when the Baltic peoples were to be the last Europeans Christianized at sword's point, it is the story of a young man named king of Semigallia,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Latvia\"","block_context":{"text":"Latvia","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=latvia"},"img":{"alt_text":"Medieval Pagan Latvians","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/medieval-latvians.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/medieval-latvians.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/medieval-latvians.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/medieval-latvians.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2813,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2813","url_meta":{"origin":119,"position":5},"title":"Pagan Family Website Seeks Writers","author":"Chas S. 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