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Thanksgiving: America’s Forgotten Religious Holiday

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Posted By: Moritz55, 11/28/2025 2:39:00 PM

Thanksgiving is America’s forgotten religious holiday. Not simply a holiday, it was meant to be a true holy day. That it is forgotten as such runs counter to the original Thanksgiving. It also runs counter to logic. And it also runs right into those who seek to imbue it with their own cultural causes. America has many holidays that have nothing to do with “holy days,” from whence the word came. Labor Day is a holiday but not a holy day. Arbor Day is on the calendar but hardly holy — perhaps, unless you are a druid. “Holiday” has become just a secularized term

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Reply 1 - Posted by: jayjeti 11/28/2025 3:05:08 PM (No. 2035002)
I've never heard that Thanksgiving was a religious holy day. I'm not convinced.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Proud Texan 11/28/2025 3:42:38 PM (No. 2035016)
I thought this was a great article. I grew up knowing before old enough to go to school and was reinforced in school the Thanksgiving was about giving thank to God. It isn't a holy day as in Easter or Christmas, but it is all about thanking God so it is holy in that sense. To those who are not fortunate enough to accept God, it is just another excuse for a day off work.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: downnout 11/28/2025 4:07:51 PM (No. 2035021)
Lefties have been howling about “decolonizing” and/or eliminating Thanksgiving. If you want to shut them up tell them since it is no longer a holiday they don’t get the day off.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: chumley 11/28/2025 6:44:16 PM (No. 2035082)
Christians are not the only people capable of being thankful. Thanksgiving is a national holiday and can be celebrated by all Americans regardless of religious beliefs. Leave it alone.
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