Is Thanksgiving A Religious Holiday?

[Campbell]

You goddam right it is! "Thanks" "Giving"

 

[Moonglow]

I guess it is if your religious...

 

[TNHarley]

I think its more of a National observance. Thanksgiving is practiced by all different kinds of religion. They even have something similar in Canada.
"giving" and "thanks" isnt particular..

 

[Moonglow]

We usually go to the Chinese rest. for Thanksgiving, since they are open..

 

[the_human_being]

Actually, it began as a Native American handout to the white folks who were starving to death.

 

[Two Thumbs]

No.

check your bible, you won't find it in there

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

If not, then who were they giving thanks to, trees?

 

[jillian]

You goddam right it is! "Thanks" "Giving"

zero to do with religion...

 

[norwegen]

No.

check your bible, you won't find it in there

Okay, I just checked. You're right.

I didn't find Christmas there, either.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

No.

check your bible, you won't find it in there

Oh brother....

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

You nutters are so ignorant.

Prayers of thanks and special thanksgiving ceremonies are common among almost all religions after harvests and at other times.[1] The Thanksgiving holiday's history in North America is rooted in English traditions dating from the ProtestantReformation. It also has aspects of a harvest festival, even though the harvest in New England occurs well before the late-November date on which the modern Thanksgiving holiday is celebrated.[1][2]

In the English tradition, days of thanksgiving and special thanksgiving religious services became important during the English Reformation in the reign of Henry VIII and in reaction to the large number of religious holidays on the Catholic calendar. Before 1536 there were 95 Church holidays, plus 52 Sundays, when people were required to attend church and forego work and sometimes pay for expensive celebrations. The 1536 reforms reduced the number of Church holidays to 27, but some Puritans wished to completely eliminate all Church holidays, including Christmas and Easter. The holidays were to be replaced by specially called Days of Fasting or Days of Thanksgiving, in response to events that the Puritans viewed as acts of special providence. Unexpected disasters or threats of judgement from on high called for Days of Fasting. Special blessings, viewed as coming from God, called for Days of Thanksgiving. For example, Days of Fasting were called on account of drought in 1611, floods in 1613, and plagues in 1604 and 1622. Days of Thanksgiving were called following the victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588 and following the deliverance of Queen Anne in 1705. An unusual annual Day of Thanksgiving began in 1606 following the failure of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 and developed into Guy Fawkes Day.[3]

 

[Two Thumbs]

No.

check your bible, you won't find it in there

Okay, I just checked. You're right.

I didn't find Christmas there, either.

that would be the celebration of the birth of jesus, which is what christmas is supposed to be.

 

[TemplarKormac]

You goddam right it is! "Thanks" "Giving"

I never thought of it as religious. And I'm religious. You must think that because we pray over the food on that particular day that somehow it's religious. What's next? The Fourth of July because we say God Bless America?

 

[Campbell]

You goddam right it is! "Thanks" "Giving"

I never thought of it as religious. And I'm religious. You must think that because we pray over the food on that particular day that somehow it's religious. What's next? The Fourth of July because we say God Bless America?

Just a question......if it's not religious who the hell are you giving thanks to?

 

[norwegen]

No.

check your bible, you won't find it in there

Okay, I just checked. You're right.

I didn't find Christmas there, either.

that would be the celebration of the birth of jesus, which is what christmas is supposed to be.

And Thanksgiving is a day set aside to give thanks to God. Read the proclamations of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

Thanksgiving and Christmas are days set aside to honor the Lord, neither one of which the Bible sanctions. They're just nice to celebrate. Although I will admit Christmas is a federal holiday. But Thanksgiving is intended to honor God just the same.

 

[bodecea]

If not, then who were they giving thanks to, trees?

popcorn

 

[Maryland Patriot]

We usually go to the Chinese rest. for Thanksgiving, since they are open..

Fa Ra Ra Ra Ra,,
Oh wait, that's Christmas. never mind.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

The Thanksgiving that we know and celebrate was a day of observation set aside by Abraham Lincoln to give thanks that the union was preserved.

As the preservation of the Union turned out so badly there's no reason to celebrate this holiday.