The Banality of Valentine Day

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(Feb 11, 2006): Christian western confidence has fallen to low ebb. Those who

dreamed of world evangelization and conquest are now desperate. There is a

crisis of confidence. The international dimensions of the current malaise

indicate that it cannot be attributed to western failure of nerve or marketable

ideas. They have lost the capacity to confront non-Christian world militarily

but they have devised plans for cultural invasion, shape public opinion, and

undermine spiritual traditions. With the help of multi national corporations,

the Christian west is now engaged in a psychological warfare to breakdown the

barriers to free market activity, smash through or bypass the culture and

spiritual tradition. This will give way before organized Christian evangelists

can promote their well-packaged conversion products.

 

Celebrating Valentine Day and selling Valentine Cards in India is a cultural

invasion that introduces one of the worst features of the collapsing Christian

empire. It is a deliberate and cleverly devised plan of deceitful battle for our

mind. It is a subtle attempt to liberate Indians from their rich culture and

enslave them with rigid, fundamentalist, exclusive dogma. It is a deliberate

plan to force Hindus to discard their spiritual tradition and force them to

escape from freedom to slavery.

 

Promoting Valentines Day is a deliberate ploy to trivialize our cultural

tradition, spiritual festivals, social customs and religious holidays. In the

name of love, romance and courtship, Valentine Day is used to promote

pre-marital sex, and trivial, valueless western life style. For the multi

national corporations, India is a market place. The marketing experts, the media

and the business people join together to promote Valentine cards, fast foods and

party gadgets to make money. They neglect traditional culture and promote fast

food culture and throw away products.

 

The marketing of discarded western goods and meaningless cultural festivals

devalues our spiritual past and create a cultural crisis. A nation is known, and

the people have been recognized on the basis of religion, art, festivals,

customs, food, language and spiritual tradition. A nation’s cultural habits and

religious practices make them unique. India has survived hundreds of years of

Muslim invasion and Christian colonization because Hindus were able to preserve

the spiritual tradition. Now the Christian west is attempting to decimate our

eternal Hindu culture by dubious means. This Valentine Day celebration is a

clear form of cultural invasion, a psychological trick to oppress our dynamic,

vibrant and eternal culture.

 

The deliberate and cunning strategy to devalue our Hindu culture needs to be

resisted. Hindus need to examine how western cultural habits and religious

holidays like Valentine Day are infiltrating our society. Our survival as a

nation, our social, political, economic, cultural future depends on resisting

cultural invasion disguised in many forms including Valentine Day. It is a

deceptive, open and covert form of psychological warfare to annihilate our Hindu

tradition.

 

There is nothing wrong in modernizing our nation, embracing progressive ideas,

but denial of our rich Hindu cultural traditions and festivals for flimsy,

meaningless consumer products and transient habits are dangerous for the future

of our nation. It is time to resist cultural invasion and keep our distance from

festivals like Valentine Day.

 

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