Posted on 11/18/2007 10:36:22 PM PST by goldstategop
"When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing – they believe in anything."
That's what G.K. Chesterton told us, and it's true.
Because so many of us no longer believe in the God of the Bible, we no longer have any standard for truth. Some even dispute whether there is such a thing as truth. That's how crazy it can get.
The latest evidence of this assault on standards and truth comes in the form of confusion about what to teach about Thanksgiving in America's government schools.
For instance, the Seattle school district sent out a letter to staff warning that the holiday is not a joyous occasion for all Americans. For many native Americans, wrote Superintendent Willard Bill, it is a "time of mourning," not celebration.
A holiday that was designed to bring all Americans together is now itself a point of division and controversy. This is what happens when we accentuate our differences rather than our common ground.
It was once so easy.
There are some 28 references to the word "thanksgiving" in the King James Bible – all but six in the Old Testament. For the ancient children of Israel, thanksgiving was a time of feasting and fasting, of praising God, of singing songs. It was a rich celebration – and still is for observant Jews today.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The week of Thanksgiving I always reflect on the many Blessings I have had from God in my life...
I am thankful to my God and nobody can change my attitude about that even a Scrooge like this jerk
The ACLU doesn’t seem to have figured it out yet.
Thanksgiving Day is A Government mandated RELIGIOUS holiday, but they haven’t attacked it yet.
ON THE INTERNET:
http://www.truthusa.com/ThanksGIVING.html
http://truthusa.com/b/index.php?topic=6.0
Obviously George Washington was hell-bent on imposing a tyrannical theocracy on this nation and did not understand that no whisper of a mention of God is permitted in America’s public life. /s
[Abraham Lincoln also failed to anticipate the depravity of the ACLU secularizing fanatics]
It's been forty five years since I heard the history, but isn't Thanksgiving a secular holiday, after the Pilgrims made it through a year in spite of deprivation?
Governor William Bradford, in the journal he wrote for his family - that ended up shining like the "one small candle" still lit after almost 400 years - with the journal, originally printed as "The Bradford History" is now titled "Of Plymouth Plantation" still in print...available in Amazon, Plymouth 11, etc -
Also, last year, the History Channel produced the best and most accurate movie on the Pilgrims ever done - and if you never knew or really cared much about them at all, it's still a great adventure story - wonderfully acted by Elizabethan Shakespearean actors, the costuming is FINALLY right - not black and white, and the photography is breathtaking.
Titled "Desperate Crossing" and available through Amazon, it's a classic everyone should have...
And this guy better not mess with my favorite holiday of the year - Gov. Bradford was one of my 7th great-great grandfathers. :o)
To judge from the stores, we go directly from Halloween (which starts in late August) into the Christmas season-Thanksgiving no longer rates much in the way of decorations or displays at all. People talk about a “war on Christmas”, but Thanksgiving is the one which really seems to be under attack-or rather, ignored pretty much entirely.
Secular?
You call a Day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer to Almighty God “Secular”?
My favorite historian, the Brit Paul Johnson says basically the same thing and one of our FReepers has it as a tagline:
"Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor."--Paul Johnson
Yeah, I was pleased to purchase Thanksgiving decor at some 70% off after Halloween and weeks before Thanksgiving. It was lumped together with Halloween stuff. That part was great.
“When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing – they believe in anything.”
Feel so sorry for those who stop believing in God. What sustains them in difficult times?
FDR declared Thanksgiving to extend the shopping season:
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/thanksg.html
So thanksgiving is a secular holiday. You may, of course, celebrate it any way you choose.
Utter Rubbish.
Roosevelt merely tinkered with the date, not the meaning, of the holiday. Christmas’ date has moved over the centuries and that is still a religious holiday.
You need to read THIS, the original Proclamation, which has never been rescinded or superceeded, by George Washington..
Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me to “recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:”
Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the 3d day of October, A.D. 1789.
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