Halloween isn't even here yet and stores are shoving Christmas down your throat. Do we not have anything to be thankful for anymore??
2006-10-01 13:33:37 · 29 answers · asked by junebug501 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Thanksgiving
It is the same with all holidays. There is no holiday that is not tainted by paganism, man-made traditions and commerialism. How can the God of truth be pleased with them?--The truth is, he can't.
We can be thankful for true worship that has abandoned all worldly holidays and look to God's heavenly government to bring peace and security to the earth, along with the end of all sickness, old age and death. This is what Christians should be focused on, for our Creator has promised us all those things and more. Psalms 37:9-11; Daniel 2:44
2006-10-01 13:41:57 · answer #1 · answered by Micah 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here I am once again, answering the questions people ask.
You have asked this quesion, and I'll try my best to answer it from the heart.
Yes...I do see it. People are too busy to sit back and enjoy a holiday. We have Halloween, which is a time to get loose as a society and celebrate cold weather for a change in drag and welcome Fall as a season. Then we have Thanksgiving. Then Christmas comes. A time to be together and open presents, ignore Christ, welcome snow, and see Santa. If you have kids, be sure to snap a photo of them in his lap to send in a card to the people you never see anymore because they live too far away. Then comes New Years Eve. A time to dress your best and get drunk all night because you swear for the rest of the year, you'll never do "those things" again.
Notice I skipped over Thanksgiving?
I have tried for the past three years (successfully) to get us all together at my house. It seems like everybody is just begging for an invitation. We have a wonderful time together, and we of course start out the meal by saying the blessing and giving thanks for each thing every one of us has. We're scattered from Georgia, Mississippi, China, Ohio... blah blah blah... you get the picture. We still manage to get together enough to enjoy a good meal and family bonding.
We have to reach within our family units as a society and love one another again. People are too busy to do that. It really is sad, but it's true. I'm just "thankful" that my children will feel the bond. And from the looks of your question, yours will to.
Happy Thanksgiving, baby. ;)
2006-10-01 13:59:56 · answer #2 · answered by mom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thanksgiving- like Christmas is an overly commercialized holiday. Although Thanksgiving doesn't come close to Christmas sales, the fall decorations sell big. Whats Thanksgiving anyway? The celebration of the brutal slaughter of thousands of helpless kind native Indians? I don't think its a great reason to be thankful. Sure we have a great free country that we inherited from them- but at what cost? We should be thankful for whatever we're thankful for anytime of year you chose. Thanksgiving is just another excuse to shop and waste money. Oh, and to eat great turkey. I like that part.
2006-10-01 15:30:08 · answer #3 · answered by gumby and pokey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's just the way retail works!! I work for Kohl's Dept Stores and they having us distributing Back to school in June, Halloween/ Thanksgiving in August, then Christmas/Hanukkah now until the beginning of December. It's crazy!
2006-10-02 09:53:54 · answer #4 · answered by Jenn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I've noticed for years that they have maybeeeee one little corner in the store with Thanksgiving stuff......it's disgraceful, but it IS all about the money, so you truly have to keep Thanksgiving in your heart and home! Personally, I had more fun and close times at Thanksgiving than at Christmas! More wonderful memories, laughs, etc. as we all sat around the table for hours afterward! It was more special than Christmas as far as closeness. I used to work at a store that put up Christmas trees in June...no lie. Disgraceful and disgusting, especially since it's supposed to be a "Christian" company.
2006-10-04 00:14:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thanksgiving has never been as big as the rest of the holidays which is sad. I refuse to look at any Christmas anything until after Thanksgiving.
2006-10-01 15:39:11 · answer #6 · answered by couchP56 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is awful, isn't it! I refuse to decorate my house with Christmas stuff until December 1st. I love the fall and decorate for Halloween and Thanksgiving. Christmas is so commercial anymore ... it's ridiculous to have Christmas stuff out already...
2006-10-03 10:30:21 · answer #7 · answered by sherirenee1954 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Except for the turkey and cranberry business there is no money to be made in Thanksgiving. Well, unless you count all the people shopping on their extra day off. There is no product to sell like candy and costumes or loads of money spent on presents. Except for Foster Farms, corporate America hasn't figured out yet how to make this a money making holiday.
2006-10-01 13:44:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Halloween and Christmas are the two biggest holidays for retail companies so it makes sense that they would focus more attention on those two. I would imagine the typical American family buys a turkey, stuffing and canned cranberry for Thanksgiving; so it's not a huge money-maker for most retail companies.
2006-10-01 13:37:58 · answer #9 · answered by Kookiemon 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Jews are in simple terms high quality with it, truly. as long as you do not thoroughly ignore about Chanukka or thoroughly throw Christmas of their faces, they don't truly care. a minimum of maximum i have come throughout do not. yet yeah, I continually observe that in u.s. (in Canada Thanksgiving is in early October, so as that would not ensue that a lot, lol). Like your complete Thanksgiving Day Parade (the only in ny) is all Christmas-y and stuff.
2016-12-04 02:54:22 · answer #10 · answered by scacchetti 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋