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If you look at the history of Thanksgiving and how it came to be its actually a religious holiday if you go here and scroll down to In the United States it talks about God.
As President of the United States, George Washington proclaimed the first nation-wide thanksgiving celebration in America marking November 26, 1789, "as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favours of Almighty God". (Source the link above and scroll down to In the United States)
He never told you what to believe in... by the way, what religion do you follow? Based on your arguments, I've come up with some sort of Radical neo-nazi-Islamic-Judaism. A very strange combination.
RandomDude, this is the kind of thing I'm talking about...have you ever put a complete, serious thought into an argument with evidence, complete sentences, correct grammar and punctuation, taking in to account both sides...I sincerely doubt it.
He wasn't telling you what to believe in, he was just pointing out that your overly rude behavior is hurting the image of non-fanatical religious people.
(P.S. What specific religious denomination are you anyway?)
Religious people can talk about science with a good amount of reason. In fact there are a number of famous scientists who made great discoveries who were religious.
I do agree though that is basically pointless to debate religion, because most of it is based on opinion on perspective.
Maybe in your opinion. However, I don't like Christians or any other sort of religious people who say stuff like, "Believe in God or burn in hell." It's just.... not right, and it doesn't really help in proving any sort of point.
And those types of Christians who resort to the "believe or burn" tactics are, in my opinion, fanatics who do not represent us average Jobs ( <--See what i did there. lol)
Nooo, thanksgiving was the day that Europeans went on a murder spree in the name of "Gold and Jesus" for the Queen of Spain killing thousands of Native Americans, then twisted the story that we all know today as a noble holiday of unity, want to know the truth, they never ate turkey, it was deer lol.
(90% of all American History is a lie), one big propaganda campaign told to us as children, remember one history, is written by the victor, think about that.
Um... no. Thanksgiving is exactly what it's title says, a day to give thanks. It's a patriotic holiday, that's for sure, but there's no religious background story to go with it. Though there may be one day. ;)
It is based on the English Harvest Festival were you give thanks to God for a bountiful harvest it's celebrated on a different day so technically it isva religous festival.
I don't believe that it is. When Thanksgiving started, not all of the Pilgrims were of the same religion (although most of them were probably Christian,) and people of all religions celebrate it today.
The idea of giving thanks is not solely a religious idea, but is a common value and idea of people everywhere. Celebrating Thanksgiving does not have to be religious, although it can be.
Although most people who originally celebrated were religious, this holiday has nothing to do with religion. Its was (and still is) a holiday where you gather with your family and friends and just be thankful.
i dont think so i meam i dont know for a fact really, but i dont think it is, i mean anyone can celebrate it, you dont just have to be a chritstian or belive in any religion to have thanks giving but YH i dont think so :)
