Valentine/RTW Starting date Coincidence?

**Zeraylph** · February 14, 2012, 03:47 PM

Anyhow, St.Valentine was beheaded on 270 B.C

Rome Total War Campaign begins in 270 B.C

Anyone see any coincidence here! Love ends, so the war begins!

We shall put away the false face of love and friendship! and go to War!

**LordOfEmona** · February 14, 2012, 04:10 PM

i'd give you +rep if I knew how to...

**lolIsuck** · February 14, 2012, 04:11 PM

You can't yet, you need 50 posts and a 2 week membership

I will rep him in your place

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**Vindictus** · February 14, 2012, 06:42 PM

This is an interesting find =)

**Oxode** · February 15, 2012, 06:29 AM

One of my friends gave me a card with a printed out picture of Hungary shaped like a heart on the M2TW Campaign map, it was pretty funny.

**Paggers** · February 15, 2012, 06:59 AM

Originally Posted by Zeraylph

Anyhow, St.Valentine was beheaded on 270 B.C

Rome Total War Campaign begins in 270 B.C

Anyone see any coincidence here! Love ends, so the war begins!

We shall put away the false face of love and friendship! and go to War!

Christian saints have a tendency to be born in AD years, not BC. I'm sure you can see why if you think about it.
What do they teach kids in school these days.

**Gazz** · February 15, 2012, 11:53 AM

Originally Posted by Paggers

What do they teach kids in school these days.

They don't.

**Bonez** · February 15, 2012, 12:21 PM

^^ He's got the truth of it... I know more about the water surrounding my country than I do about the places within it, and don't get me started on math or english...

**Adamat** · February 16, 2012, 09:19 AM

These BC saints were time travelers, Y U NO UNDERSTAND?

**florin87** · February 16, 2012, 09:55 AM

Originally Posted by Zeraylph

Anyhow, St.Valentine was beheaded on 270 B.C

Rome Total War Campaign begins in 270 B.C

Anyone see any coincidence here! Love ends, so the war begins!

We shall put away the false face of love and friendship! and go to War!

you are off by half a millennium. and valentine was not the prince of love during his lifetime either.

**eXistenZ** · February 17, 2012, 07:19 AM

the whole point of valentine being on the 14th of february was because they werent sure of the year he died but they knew the day, i red somewhere.

and yeah, what the hell are they teaching kids today (aside from blind acception ithout thinking from the first repliants :p )

**florin87** · February 17, 2012, 08:59 AM

well initially valentine's was on the 16th. the catholic church moved it to the 14th for some reason. aside from protestants and catholics the rest of christianity honors him on the 16th.

**Primo** · February 20, 2012, 08:42 AM

Originally Posted by florin87

well initially valentine's was on the 16th. the catholic church moved it to the 14th for some reason. aside from protestants and catholics the rest of christianity honors him on the 16th.

Which make the majority of christianity, don´t they?

**Chris Death** · February 20, 2012, 09:46 AM

Originally Posted by Nightmare Moon

Which make the majority of christianity, don´t they?

Don't forget the orthodox - the east/southeast is full of those

~S~ CD

**florin87** · February 21, 2012, 01:00 PM

Originally Posted by Nightmare Moon

Which make the majority of christianity, don´t they?

no. besides catholics and western protestants you have the orthodox, coptics, ehiopians, syriacs, marankarans, armenians, "formerly orthodox" protestants. add them up, you'll see that catholics and protestants are not most of christianity.

**ccgr1121** · February 22, 2012, 11:53 AM

Originally Posted by florin87

no. besides catholics and western protestants you have the orthodox, coptics, ehiopians, syriacs, marankarans, armenians, "formerly orthodox" protestants. add them up, you'll see that catholics and protestants are not most of christianity.

Catholic: 1.166 billion

Protestant: 800 million

Total: 1.966 billion

Christianity: 2.2 billion

1.966 / 2.2 = 89%

You were saying?

**TheFoolOnTheHill** · February 17, 2012, 09:02 AM

i think they did it to coincide with a pagen holiday like they did for christmas

**Adamat** · February 17, 2012, 09:03 AM

bc the 14th wasnt taken yet i guess.

**Squid** · February 21, 2012, 03:00 PM

Actually by number adherent he's correct. Out of ~2.2 billion christians worldwide ~1.87 billion are adherent to catholicism or protestantism. The groups you've listed and others such as oriental orthodox make up the other ~.6 billion. So I'd say that majority it a pretty apropos word to use.