Don't they realize that Thanksgiving belongs to the pilgrims and their direct descendants and that anybody else who celebrates it is a hippo-crat (or hypocrite, for the spelling Nazis)?
Also, what are your religious views on holiday-stealing?
2007-11-17 11:01:06 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You should get together with the guy that just asked why Atheists celebrate Christmas.
We celebrate Thanksgiving because we like to eat mounds and mounds of food with our family and friends.
I've never mentioned the Indians or the Pilgrims at dinner on Thanksgiving.
2007-11-17 11:07:37 · answer #1 · answered by daljack -a girl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What you DON"T know about Thanksgiving day could fill a football stadium....
Here, educate yourself.
After the United States became an independent country, Congress recommended one yearly day of thanksgiving for the whole nation to celebrate. George Washington suggested the date November 26 as Thanksgiving Day. Then in 1863, at the end of a long and bloody civil war, Abraham Lincoln asked all Americans to set aside the last Thursday in November as a day of thanksgiving*.
2007-11-17 11:14:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i do not celebrate it as it is an insult to my ancestors and to my family:
November 23, 2005
ORIGINS OF THANKSGIVING
The year was 1637.....700 men, women and children of the Pequot Tribe, gathered for their "Annual Green Corn Dance" in the area that is now known as Groton, Conn.
While they were gathered in this place of meeting, they were surrounded and attacked by mercernaries of the English and Dutch. The Indians were ordered from the building and as they came forth, they were shot down. The rest were burned alive in the building.
The next day, the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony declared : "A day of Thanksgiving, thanking God that they had eliminated over 700 men, women and children.
For the next 100 years, every "Thanksgiving Day" ordained by a Governor or President was to honor that victory, thanking God that the battle had been won.
Newell based his research on studies of Holland Documents and the 13 volume Colonial Documentary History, both thick sets of letters and reports from colonial officials to their superiors and the king in England, and the private papers of Sir William Johnson, British Indian agent for the New York colony for 30 years in the mid-1600s.
"My research is authentic because it is documentary," Newell said. "You can't get anything more accurate than that because it is first hand. It is not hearsay."
Newell said the next 100 Thanksgivings commemorated the killing of the Indians at what is now Groton, Connecticut [home of a nuclear submarine base] rather than a celebration with them. He said the image of Indians and Pilgrims sitting around a large table to celebrate Thanksgiving Day was "fictitious" although Indians did share food with the first settlers.
2007-11-17 11:09:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is silly. Abraham is my spiritual father, although I am not a descendant of him. Thanksgiving is for all persons who have come to the New World. Do not be so negative. Be open hearted. Happy Thanksgiving!
2007-11-17 11:37:12 · answer #4 · answered by Bibs 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Speaking as one of the direct descendants, it's okay with me for anyone who wants to celebrate to do so, but I don't know why they'd need/want/care about my permission. Turkey and pie all around!
Seriously, I know you're making a point about Christmas and Scrooges grumbling about non-Christians. But I wonder, how would Jews feel if I decided to celebrate Chanukah "but the religious part doesn't matter" and called the menorah "the holiday candlestick."
2007-11-17 11:10:25 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the applicable same reason Atheists have fun the commercialized and materialistic Christmas. that's a countrywide trip. I have fun it even nonetheless I truthfully have ancestors from France who got here right here in the previous the Mayflower.
2016-10-17 03:08:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a paid day off, and I'm too lazy to file charges over stolen holidays.
I can't do anything about DW Griffith introducing cross burning into the USA, either.
2007-11-17 11:05:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
It's not "holiday stealing," it's holiday SHARING! Otherwise known as any excuse for a party . . . or a day off work.
2007-11-17 11:08:58 · answer #8 · answered by auntb93 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've asked many people this myself. Maybe they just celebrate the slaughter of the original Americans.
2007-11-17 11:05:24 · answer #9 · answered by 雅威的烤面包机 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋