It is clearly a day about giving thanks to God. If you don't believe me, just ask Abraham Lincoln.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/tgproclamation.html
2006-11-27 10:33:34 · 38 answers · asked by Let there be JIMBO 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
did you fuggin retards even read the link? it's Abraham's Proclamation about Thanksgiving. If anything, you should be more offended by the Gov't making a holiday giving thanks to God. READ DETAILS YOU DOLTS!!!!
2006-11-27 10:36:50 · update #1
Christmas is different from Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is clearly a day set aside to thank God for how blessed our country is. If you read the proclamation you would see that. The Christianized version of Christmas is another thing. The Church made it a holy day, and the rest of the world fell into tradition.
Don't play me a fool! y'alls bound to be schooled!
2006-11-27 10:39:43 · update #2
In my mind I substitute the words "universal spirit" for the word "god" and then I go ahead and eat my cousin's crawfish cornbread dressing and my aunt's glazed ham and granny's homemade noodles.
2006-11-27 10:49:26 · answer #1 · answered by Cosmic I 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Abraham Lincoln also owned slaves. If he's a model of being correct all the time, does that mean I should go and buy people off the street?
Thanksgiving isn't about God at all. It's a holiday where you get a break from work so you can go and spend time with your friends and family. Some Jews get together on Christmas for similar reasons; that doesn't make them Christian.
EDIT: In your additional details, you answered your own question. You said that the church made Christmas a holiday, and Christmas turned into a tradition. It's tradition for anybody of any religion to get together with their family and friends on Thanksgiving.
2006-11-27 10:38:38 · answer #2 · answered by robtheman 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Thanksgiving wasn't really born out of religion. Implicitly, the holiday is to give thanks to God for whatever in your life, but no one ever said an atheist couldn't be thankful. Also, since Thanksgiving is now more about eating turkey and watching football, the holiday is far separated from God.
A proclamation from a Christian president more than 100 years after the observed beginning of the holiday DOESN'T automatically make it an exclusively Christian holiday.
2006-11-27 10:37:29 · answer #3 · answered by Joy M 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's the ultimate atheist holiday. It came about because a bunch of heathens decided to give the starving colonists a free meal. Half the participants in the first Thanksgiving didn't believe in God either.
2006-11-27 13:16:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have it wrong. Thanksgiving is about being thankful as Americans for what we have been blessed with in our lives. The holiday evolved before Lincoln's proclamation and continues to evolve since.
Additional detail: how Christian of you to insult anyone with differing views.
More additional details: The church may have been the originator of Christmas celebration but many of the rituals around the holiday are pagan based.
Yet more additional details: After perusing your other questions and answers I have come to the conclusion you are a typical Christian, hypocritical, condescending, and not worried what a fool you make yourself to be on Earth as you believe that since you are "saved", you're entitled to act a jackass.
You should wear chiffon and I prefer Jessica Alba to funnel cake.
2006-11-27 10:35:54 · answer #5 · answered by ©2009 7 · 9⤊ 1⤋
Abraham Lincoln was an atheist. He was probably reading what his aids had writen for him. Thanksgiving is more about honoring the people who came before us as brave settlers. Next time try to find the quote of a non-atheist.
2006-11-27 10:40:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Thanksgiving pre-dates Lincoln's proclamation by a good many years.
As a person who is part Native American and part European, I like remembering a time when my ancestors on both sides managed to get together without any bloodshed.
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2006-11-27 10:41:01 · answer #7 · answered by Chickyn in a Handbasket 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
"blah blah blah blah"....I believe that is an accurate summary of all the answers you received sir!!
Here in Britain we do not have Thanksgiving, however we do have a Harvest Festival which is a similar thing...it is a thanksgiving of sorts and somewhat religious depending on whether people wish to make it so....
Couldn't give a crap either way, as long as I get an extra day off for it...
2006-11-27 20:04:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because our religious relatives drag us along and we don't want to be hurtful toward them.
I use the holiday to reflect on the things that people have done for me over the year. You don't need any spiritual beliefs of any kind to do that.
(BTW - I gave boxer a thumbs down just to save space on my screen. Didn't even read it, dude. No offense intended.)
2006-11-27 11:01:16 · answer #9 · answered by John's Secret Identity™ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not a religious holiday, it's an American holiday, while Canada has their own version of it. Can you explain why Christians from other countries don't celebrate it? Anyway, why do you care? I can just as easily be asking why Christians celebrate Pagan holidays.
EDIT: I think he's about to cry....
2006-11-27 10:37:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋