Being thankful has two parts: Who or what we are thankful for and whom we are thankful to. If we are thankful, then there has to be someone to be thanked for it. Some atheists may say, “I will thank nature for it”, but this is not what history teaches us. Our history shows over and over again that the first settlers to this great land were thankful for their many blessings: their families, the land, the food, ECT. And who were they thankful to? God! They praised and thanked God, always!
Our children’s history books may change over time, by slowly removing God from this, but it is wrong and it is incorrect. Removing God, is like erasing a part of our history, an amazing historical event, based on the love of this country and God!
Thanksgiving is about thanking God for our many blessings. This is our history and should remain so for all eternity. Thank God!
2006-11-13 04:59:51 · 22 answers · asked by Oh Tami !! 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Exactly what I mean Debra !!!!!!!
2006-11-13 05:09:02 · update #1
The pilgrims gave thanks specifically to God for harvest and health and thus established the holiday as such. Atheists who celebrate it any other way are twisting things to accommodate their lack of belief. These are the same people who celebrate Santa and the Easter bunny, ignoring the true meaning behind the Holidays.
2006-11-13 05:07:01 · answer #1 · answered by Debra D 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Who do you thank on Thanksgiving?
Being thankful has two parts: Who or what we are thankful for and whom we are thankful to. If we are thankful, then there has to be someone to be thanked for it. Some atheists may say, “I will thank nature for it”, but this is not what history teaches us. Our history shows over and over again that the first settlers to this great land were thankful for their many blessings: their families, the land, the food, ECT. And who were they thankful to? God! They praised and thanked God, always!
Our children’s history books may change over time, by slowly removing God from this, but it is wrong and it is incorrect. Removing God, is like erasing a part of our history, an amazing historical event, based on the love of this country and God!
Thanksgiving is about thanking God for our many blessings. This is our history and should remain so for all eternity. Thank God!
2014-11-04 00:03:02 · answer #2 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have become so schooled and arrogant since the arrival of the first recognized europeans to america. Those who identify removing God from our education system as seperating church and state have lost what the pilgramage was, is, all about. We have become a society where criminals have more rights, privilages and resources than those they commit their crimes against. Where science attempts to disprove the existance of God. Yes those educated theorising individuals who use the cop-out "no science is a proven science", disproving what they cannot prove or disprove. Arrogance. I am educated, business, one of the top of my class, 3.8523 GPA, big deal. I am not rich, I do not control any conglomorate, I do not attempt to persuade people to any end. I simply provide a service others may or may not be interested in and let them choose for themselves. I always thank God for every meal, lesson, sale, opportunity and failure in my life. Why, because I have fought for the right. I enlisted to serve a country, in a time of war, which was born based on these principles. And, I have faith in myself and my fellow man, second and third to my faith in God. My service is always given to God and country, in that order. Without God first there would have been no country.
2006-11-13 05:31:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
you may make some variety of casserole that you'll both like. Leftovers save ok in a good number of cases. upload to that a salad and a dessert and it makes for a astonishing dinner. I practice dinner plenty yet i in my opinion don't love dealing with pie crusts so I make cobblers or crumbles extra many times, lol. or you may want to purchase a crust and make the filling from scratch. you may want to of route purchase something from the save and throw it contained in the oven too if it really is more convenient. i'm having a potluck with the in-guidelines this three hundred and sixty 5 days and bringing a peach cobbler and a rice and spinach casserole. i desire you've an rather solid vacation!
2016-11-29 02:38:02 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When we sit down to our grilled hamburgers and hotdogs (my family doesn't do the whole turkey thing), I'll be thankful to the cooks, to my beloved and patient parents who put up with me despite my many, many mental handicaps and behavioral issues, who have been so often my only means of surviving through the hard parts in my life.
I have no need to be thankful to a deity. I respect that the early settlers had such a need and I'm glad they acted on it; it brought meaning and purpose for them in their struggles. For me, thanksgiving is a day for family though, not religion.
2006-11-13 05:09:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I am thankful to God for my life, for my salvation, for my husband and kids. For my family, for food on the table, for clothes on our backs, for another day to wake up. I try to bring thanksgiving in every day but fail often. I find myself complaining a lot, but do not realize until later that what I do have I should be thankful for.
Thank you for bringing this to light, God bless.
2006-11-13 05:04:59 · answer #6 · answered by newcovenant0 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
GOD, should be thanked first of all for without GOD nothing else matters. then thanking family and friends foe everything they do is also a great and important action/
2006-11-13 05:48:43 · answer #7 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What you're saying is that those of us who aren't Christian have no right to celebrate Thanksgiving, and you should be ashamed for saying it. Who are you to deny the rest of us the right to be thankful?!
Since it is the Goddess AND the God who are responsible for all of nature, and it is nature that provides us with the sustenance, I thank the GODDESS and the GOD for the food on my plate. I also thank them for my job, which allows me to keep a roof over my head, and my family, who are blessed with health and still in my life.
I specifically thank Aphrodite for bringing such a wonderful man into my life, as I am deeply in love with my boyfriend. Make no mistake, it is Aphrodite's aspect of the Goddess that swung my boyfriend into my life, not your God.
2006-11-13 05:07:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
God is always foremost among my blessings. Family and friends a close second.
2006-11-13 05:03:33 · answer #9 · answered by sister steph 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I thank God for everything. But not just on Thanksgiving.
2006-11-13 05:04:29 · answer #10 · answered by newheartin03 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋