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November 24, 2005
Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Day is finally here. But, apparently some are confused as to whom we're giving thanks?
As a conservative, you know who it is, God of course. We do that for all His blessing during the earliest Pilgrim times right up to now. However, the guy at my dry cleaners wished me a "happy holiday" and so did the young girl at the supermarket checkout. Apparently they were trying very hard to be politically correct and take God out of it, lest they offend somebody. But, how do you remove God from Thanksgiving and still have Thanksgiving? Who are we thanking then? "Hey, thank you Bart! Ah, contre,' thank you Homer and thank you Marge!" Nah, it just doesn't work for me.
So if you are one of those offended by the term "Thanksgiving" then I say, get over yourself pal, this is America and we were not founded by Muslims, Seiks, Buddhists or even Atheists, we were founded by Christian Pilgrims and "Thanksgiving" was a Pilgrim celebration day to give thanks to God!
Historical revisionists can (and will) portray this as a day of infamy when the white capitalists first exploited the red proletariat (Indians), but they still can't get around the fact Thanksgiving is what it is, a Christian holiday.
“After the first harvest was completed by the Plymouth colonists in 1621, Gov. William Bradford proclaimed a day of thanksgiving and prayer, shared by all the colonists and neighboring American Indians. In 1623, a day of fasting and prayer during a period of drought was changed to one of thanksgiving because the rain came during the prayers. Gradually the custom prevailed in New England of annually celebrating thanksgiving after the harvest." N. Carolina records.
The Continental Congress eventually suggested this be a national holiday and starting calling it Thanksgiving Day. In 1817, New York state adopted Thanksgiving Day and within the next 30 years most other states followed, until it became a truly national holiday. So there you have it and now it should be clear to everyone why we call it Thanksgiving...Now please, enjoy this day and have a safe and happy holiday, er, I mean, uh, THANKSGIVING!!!!!
Posted by Post Scripts at November 24, 2005 08:36 AM
Comments
As Americans attempt to bleach every bit of our own culture out of our lives to make room for everyone elses culture the rest of the world is becoming more fundamentalist.
Happy Holidays indeed. Thanksgiving and Christmas are CHRISTIAN holidays. Christmas should be so obvious, its right in the name. I'm sorry if my saying Merry Christmas offends you but maybe your wearing of traditional Muslim garb offends me. I should no more suggest you change your clothes than you suggest I change my celebration.
Americans concern themselves greatly with learning about and conforming to other cultures. 97% of American Universities offer a class in Eastern Religion, that young Americans might come to understand why our brothers living in the huge beach in the East want to kill us. Interested in how many Universities in the Middle East offer a Western Religions class in order that young Muslims and Arabs might understand that we're not all that bad? 2%. Yep, thats it.
So while we conform, go out of our way, give up our culture, those who we're trying not to offend are setting up to destroy us. So, in defiance to that I say proudly. HAPPY THANKSGIVING, MERRY CHRISTMAS, and GOD BLESS AMERICA. If that offends you, I really don't care.
Posted by: Jordan Frazer at November 24, 2005 10:36 AM
THANK YOU! Finally a blog (and a commenter) who have some sense! People are so busy wasting their time trying to prove there is no God (if HE doesn't exist why do you have to disprove HIM anyway?) they have become overly sensitive, ridiculously PC ninnies. Good Grief!
Wonderfully refreshing to hear a reasonable voice now and then!!
Posted by: Kelly Grago at November 26, 2005 09:32 PM