re: WTF is Friendsgiving?

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Oh for Christ's sake. Germany also has Erntedankfest.

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Do their school children dress up as pilgrims and natives and do a play to celebrate "The First Thanksgiving"?

I am saying that American Thanksgiving is an American holiday with some religious traditions that are the same traditions which accompany most any meal with others: giving thanks. But, it is not exclusively a religious holiday because it was rooted in a secular historical event rather than a biblical one.

Just as pagan traditions being a part of the celebration of a religious holiday do not make that holiday a pagan one, religious traditions being a part of a historical/cultural holiday don't make it religious.

There are tons of religious aspects to Veterans Day including religious services carried out at the graves of fallen soldiers, but that does not make Veterans Day a Christian holiday. It's a secular holiday containing religious traditions.

But NONE OF THAT distinction matters, because whether Thanksgiving is the Christianist Christian holiday to ever Christ a Jesus, the tradition of having a separate Friendsgiving Party around the same time of year to take advantage of all of the friends visiting their families at Thanksgiving in no way detracts from or undermines Thanksgiving or Christianity.

Making fun of Friendsgiving is one of the meanest, most unforgiving things we can do to one another I've learned. I have never heard of it before but apparently it is pretty damn serious. 12 pages

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Except the Thanksgiving declaration included a literal reference to thanking God, while the Veteran's Day declaration made no reference to religion.

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Fair point.

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Do their school children dress up as pilgrims and natives and do a play to celebrate "The First Thanksgiving"?

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You're a literal retard. Again, as in the literal meaning of the word literal. You're retarded. I know there's nothing in the Bible about reminding people to breathe, but I pray to God that there is someone who reminds you to do so on a daily basis, because I'm quite honestly worried about you. May God have mercy on your retarded soul.