re: WTF is Friendsgiving?

Brought to you by the generation that made up “baby moon”!

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the radical lefty marxists and their mainstream media propaganda machine doesnt want you giving thanks to Jesus Christ

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Since when was Thanksgiving a religious holiday. It's no holy day of obligation. It's an American holiday like July 4th or Presidents' Day.

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I mean, pretty much since Lincoln issued his Thanksgiving Day proclamation

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I don’t recall reading about him in the Bible.

Just because it's a gathering to give thanks doesn't mean it's an explicitly religious holiday, especially when it was one that was declared by the United States government to commemorate an act of friendship and goodwill between early American colonists and Native Americans. The history of Thanksgiving has nothing to do with Biblical tradition besides the generic giving of thanks one would do before LITERALLY EVERY MEAL.

Thanksgiving is an American holiday meant to commemorate an American event and was declared by an American President. It whoally exists outside of scripture even though it includes some generic Judeo-Christian traditions which are the same traditions which accompany any other meal that's not Passover or a Friday during Lent.

Finally, "Friendsgiving" typically isn't even celebrated the same day as Thanksgiving! It's a separate event! It's like the difference between your workplace Christmas Party and opening presents with your kids on Christmas morning. They just came up with a separate name that stuck which accurately describes the differences between the two celebrations. Thanksgiving is typically for family, and Friendsgiving is for all your childhood friends while all of you are in town visiting said family.

So, not only is "Friendsgiving" not undermining religion, it's not undermining "Thanksgiving" in the least because it does not replace Thanksgiving, but adds on to it. It's literally a separate celebration, on a different day, with different people, meant to be celebrated AS WELL AS Thanksgiving, not in replacement of.

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the radical lefty marxists and their mainstream media propaganda machine doesnt want you giving thanks to Jesus Christ

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El Guacho you devil!!!

To the point, Lincoln's declaration of the holiday was very explicitly religious:

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Washington, D.C.
October 3, 1863
By the President of the United States of America.
A Proclamation.
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the Eighty-eighth.
By the President: Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward,
Secretary of State

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It literally says to set aside the day as a thanksgiving to the Christian God.

I’m always amazed when someone starts a shitty thread with a moronic argument and it somehow devolves into an equally dumb, but different argument.

None of those people ever declared any religious holidays, except maybe Pentecost (though I think that was Paul). But dozens of popes have (and Protestants still follow them), so go figure.

Lincoln clearly meant it to be religious, whether he had the spiritual authority to make it so or not (and at the time, many Americans probably believed he did).

Regardless, it clearly implicates the First Amendment. If any president in the last 75 years had used that language to declare a federal holiday, it would immediately be struck down on a citizen challenge under decades of SCOTUS jurisprudence.

KB: I'm obviously smarter than all of you.

ETA: I also gave myself my own e-shorthand name.

I am an atheist who regularly attends Friendsgiving and my family Thanksgiving. That doesn't preclude me from recognizing that Thanksgiving has had explicit, government-endorsed, religious overtones since its beginning.

Literally none of the religious holidays you referenced are "in the Bible". They were declared by an "infallible" pope centuries later to try to coincide with pagan rituals.