re: Thanksgiving a Pagan Holiday?

Sounds like a cheap arse. How is it a pagan holiday exactly? My family is among the most Christian out there and celebrates thanksgiving

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witness of Jehova

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This. But surprisingly he drinks, watches tv, and cusses, yet, Thanksgiving is a fricking pagan holiday?!?!

What kind of godless person doesn't love Thanksgiving?

He is swole up about the happenings in Missouri as well, if you know what i mean.

Holidays are pagan by their very nature. A good Christian American doesn't ask for a day off work no matter what happened a few centuries or a couple of millennium ago.

No, it's actually an evolution of Guy Fawkes Day, where all Englishmen celebrate the slaughter of Catholics/failure of "Catholic plots to destroy England," all of which/whom was/were "incompatible" with English liberty.

As you might guess, if the Church of England hated Catholics, the Puritan separatists REALLY hated Catholics.

The Thanksgiving Act of 1606

I'm almost positive Thanksgiving has absolutely nothing to do with paganism.

Is this guy retarded?

"pagan" comes from a word used to describe people living in rural areas outside Rome. The meaning of the word evolved over time into something completely different.

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Word History (pagan) - In ancient Rome a person living in a rural area or village was called paganus, a word derived from the Latin noun pagus, meaning "village, district." In time paganus came to refer to a civilian as opposed to a soldier. When Christianity became generally accepted in the towns and cities of the empire, paganus was used to refer to a villager who continued to worship the old gods. Christians used the term for anyone not of their faith or of the Jewish faith. The word in Old English for such a person was what is now heathen. In the 14th century, English borrowed the Latin paganus as pagan, and used it with the same meaning. In time both heathen and pagan also took on the meaning of "a person having no religion."

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