Thanksgiving

[bigrebnc1775]

OK atheist put your money where your belief is. on thanksgiving day do not take off that Christian holiday with pay. After all Thanksgiving is giving thanks that thing you ridicule christian's about.

 

[syrenn]

OK atheist put your money where your belief is. on thanksgiving day do not take off that Christian holiday with pay. After all Thanksgiving is giving thanks that thing you ridicule christian's about.

it is not a christian holiday nut case.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

OK atheist put your money where your belief is. on thanksgiving day do not take off that Christian holiday with pay. After all Thanksgiving is giving thanks that thing you ridicule christian's about.

it is not a christian holiday nut case.

What was this holiday created for?

 

[Uncensored2008]

it is not a christian holiday nut case.

?????

Yeah, I think it is.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

it is not a christian holiday nut case.

?????

Yeah, I think it is.

Pretty much. It's the only Christian holiday that can't be claimed for any other thing but giving Thanks to God.

 

[del]

ranting fuckwits are obvious.

 

[syrenn]

Thanksgiving - Page 2 — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts

Thanksgiving Becomes an Official Holiday

Pilgrims held their second Thanksgiving celebration in 1623 to mark the end of a long drought that had threatened the year’s harvest and prompted Governor Bradford to call for a religious fast. Days of fasting and thanksgiving on an annual or occasional basis became common practice in other New England settlements as well. During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress designated one or more days of thanksgiving a year, and in 1789 George Washington issued the first Thanksgiving proclamation by the national government of the United States; in it, he called upon Americans to express their gratitude for the happy conclusion to the country’s war of independence and the successful ratification of the U.S. Constitution. His successors John Adams and James Madison also designated days of thanks during their presidencies.

In 1817, New York became the first of several states to officially adopt an annual Thanksgiving holiday; each celebrated it on a different day, however, and the American South remained largely unfamiliar with the tradition. In 1827, the noted magazine editor and prolific writer Sarah Josepha Hale—author, among countless other things, of the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb”—launched a campaign to establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday. For 36 years, she published numerous editorials and sent scores of letters to governors, senators, presidents and other politicians. Abraham Lincoln finally heeded her request in 1863, at the height of the Civil War, in a proclamation entreating all Americans to ask God to “commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife” and to “heal the wounds of the nation.” He scheduled Thanksgiving for the final Thursday in November, and it was celebrated on that day every year until 1939, when Franklin D. Roosevelt moved the holiday up a week in an attempt to spur retail sales during the Great Depression. Roosevelt’s plan, known derisively as Franksgiving, was met with passionate opposition, and in 1941 the president reluctantly signed a bill making Thanksgiving the fourth Thursday in November.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

ranting fuckwits are obvious.

If you don't believe in God maybe you should work and not get that holiday pay.

 

[Valerie]

ranting fuckwits are obvious.

PS Happy Thanksgiving and God Bless!

 

[TNHarley]

Ever hear of kindergarten history?

 

[syrenn]

OK atheist put your money where your belief is. on thanksgiving day do not take off that Christian holiday with pay. After all Thanksgiving is giving thanks that thing you ridicule christian's about.

it is not a christian holiday nut case.

What was this holiday created for?

it is an American holiday...


first to give thanks the indians help keeping the pilgrims alive and living through the winter...

then to be thankful we one the war of independence...

And then to more or less remember all those who suffered and died in the civil war.

 

[del]

ranting fuckwits are obvious.

If you don't believe in God maybe you should work and not get that holiday pay.

i don't work; i collect welfare.

thanks, sucker

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Thanksgiving - Page 2 — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts

Thanksgiving Becomes an Official Holiday

Pilgrims held their second Thanksgiving celebration in 1623 to mark the end of a long drought that had threatened the year’s harvest and prompted Governor Bradford to call for a religious fast. Days of fasting and thanksgiving on an annual or occasional basis became common practice in other New England settlements as well. During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress designated one or more days of thanksgiving a year, and in 1789 George Washington issued the first Thanksgiving proclamation by the national government of the United States; in it, he called upon Americans to express their gratitude for the happy conclusion to the country’s war of independence and the successful ratification of the U.S. Constitution. His successors John Adams and James Madison also designated days of thanks during their presidencies.

In 1817, New York became the first of several states to officially adopt an annual Thanksgiving holiday; each celebrated it on a different day, however, and the American South remained largely unfamiliar with the tradition. In 1827, the noted magazine editor and prolific writer Sarah Josepha Hale—author, among countless other things, of the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb”—launched a campaign to establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday. For 36 years, she published numerous editorials and sent scores of letters to governors, senators, presidents and other politicians. Abraham Lincoln finally heeded her request in 1863, at the height of the Civil War, in a proclamation entreating all Americans to ask God to “commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife” and to “heal the wounds of the nation.” He scheduled Thanksgiving for the final Thursday in November, and it was celebrated on that day every year until 1939, when Franklin D. Roosevelt moved the holiday up a week in an attempt to spur retail sales during the Great Depression. Roosevelt’s plan, known derisively as Franksgiving, was met with passionate opposition, and in 1941 the president reluctantly signed a bill making Thanksgiving the fourth Thursday in November.

From your link
Thanksgiving Becomes an Official Holiday
Pilgrims held their second Thanksgiving celebration in 1623 to mark the end of a long drought that had threatened the year’s harvest and prompted Governor Bradford to call for a religious fast. Days of fasting and thanksgiving on an annual or occasional basis became common practice in other New England settlements as well. During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress designated one or more days of thanksgiving a year, and in 1789 George Washington issued the first Thanksgiving proclamation by the national government of the United States; in it, he called upon Americans to express their gratitude for the happy conclusion to the country’s war of independence and the successful ratification of the U.S. Constitution. His successors John Adams and James Madison also designated days of thanks during their presidencies.

In 1817, New York became the first of several states to officially adopt an annual Thanksgiving holiday; each celebrated it on a different day, however, and the American South remained largely unfamiliar with the tradition. In 1827, the noted magazine editor and prolific writer Sarah Josepha Hale—author, among countless other things, of the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb”—launched a campaign to establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday. For 36 years, she published numerous editorials and sent scores of letters to governors, senators, presidents and other politicians. Abraham Lincoln finally heeded her request in 1863, at the height of the Civil War, in a proclamation entreating all Americans to ask God to “commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife” and to “heal the wounds of the nation.” He scheduled Thanksgiving for the final Thursday in November, and it was celebrated on that day every year until 1939, when Franklin D. Roosevelt moved the holiday up a week in an attempt to spur retail sales during the Great Depression. Roosevelt’s plan, known derisively as Franksgiving, was met with passionate opposition, and in 1941 the president reluctantly signed a bill making Thanksgiving the fourth Thursday in November.

 

[del]

Ever hear of kindergarten history?

yeah, but i didn't spend five years studying it like you.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

ranting fuckwits are obvious.

If you don't believe in God maybe you should work and not get that holiday pay.

i don't work; i collect welfare.

thanks, sucker

oh well

 

[Uncensored2008]

ranting fuckwits are obvious.

Fuck off troll, the humans are talking.

 

[del]

If you don't believe in God maybe you should work and not get that holiday pay.

i don't work; i collect welfare.

thanks, sucker

oh well

every day is a holiday for me.

suck it.

 

[jillian]

ranting fuckwits are obvious.

If you don't believe in God maybe you should work and not get that holiday pay.

you're babbling.

you want to tell me the native americans who celbrated the first thanksgiving were christians?

puleeze...

p.s. not being christian doesn't mean atheist.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

it is not a christian holiday nut case.

What was this holiday created for?

it is an American holiday...


first to give thanks the indians help keeping the pilgrims alive and living through the winter...

then to be thankful we one the war of independence...

And then to more or less remember all those who suffered and died in the civil war.

I think you need to read pages two and three from your link.
OH and who were the founders thanking for winning the war of Independence?
Memorial day is for remembering those who died in the civil war.

 

[Politico]

I always take it along with that other religious holiday Independence Day.