How many of you did not know that Thanksgiving was a day set aside by the Pilgrims to give thanks to God?

Question

This a survey.

It is one thing to be ignorant of the facts of history, but the level of haughtiness and scorn in the posts here is scary.

There is nothing wrong with not knowing something, then learning about it. But if you lack knowledge, and then refuse to learn, then you are truly stupid.

Answer 1

Weren't there some Native Americans there somewhere too?

Answer 2

Sorry, you are wrong.

Although the Pilgrims had a "Thanksgiving" feast after the first harvest in 1621, there's little evidence that it was anything but a one-off occasion. Historically it has no connection with the modern holiday at all.

The very first thanksgiving in North American was held in Canada in 1578, by Martin Frobisher--unlike the Pilgrim myth it is a recorded fact that such thanksgivings were a yearly occurance.

The Pilgrims also banned the celebration of Chrismas in New England for over 20 years.

Answer 3

That's not true
Thanksgiving was actually invented by A.Lincoln who after delivering his speech at Gettysburg PA on11/19/63 saw the still present scars of the battle that had taken place 4.5 months earlier ,realized how close that battle had come to being lost and decided that a day of thanksgiving should be set aside
If you think about it it actually makes sense bc Plymouth Mass is at approximatley 42 degrees north latitude and by the time that late November rolled around the harvest would have long been in and everyone would have been settling down for another brutal New England winter

Answer 4

In 1637 near present day Groton, Connecticut, over 700 men, women and children of the Pequot Tribe had gathered for their annual Green Corn Festival which is our Thanksgiving celebration. In the predawn hours the sleeping Indians were surrounded by English and Dutch mercenaries who ordered them to come outside. Those who came out were shot or clubbed to death while the terrified women and children who huddled inside the longhouse were burned alive. The next day the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony declared "A Day Of Thanksgiving" because 700 unarmed men, women and children had been murdered.

Cheered by their "victory", the brave colonists and their Indian allies attacked village after village. Women and children over 14 were sold into slavery while the rest were murdered.

Answer 5

The first God-oriented Thanksgiving celebrations in what is now the US were celebrated by Spanish Catholic colonists long before the Separatists landed in Plymouth MA

Answer 6

I knew that.My ancestor is William Bradford who was Gov. of the Plymouth Colony.Massasoit the Indian chief became a very close friend to Gov. Bradford for life.Unfortunately Massasoit's son Phillip started a war that William Bradford Jr. had to quell with much loss of life. They thanked God every year for their new life (and NO,the did not almost starve except for the Indians,and Yes,the Indians did help them with their crops but there was much game and fresh as well as ocean fish).

Answer 7

In the beginning it was to celebrate the slaughter of a native tribe that helped the pilgrims to survive that first winter. So much for thanking the Christian God.

Answer 8

I know that it is a day that I don't have to go to work plus one more day, Friday.

And oh yes, nice way to thank god after slaughtering a bunch of Native Americans.

Answer 9

Yes, and supposedly they invited the Indians who didn't believe in the god of Abraham to join them.

Answer 10

Who else would they be thanking?

They sure as hell weren't thanking the countless people they participated in murdering in a mass genocide.