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Thanksgiving - Religious Holiday????

Is Thanksgiving A Religious Holiday?

  • Yes

    Votes: 3 15.0%

  • No

    Votes: 16 80.0%

  • Used to be, but not anymore

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • other - please explain

    Votes: 1 5.0%
  • Total voters
    20
CanadaJohn said:
Many churches consider it a religious holiday, mainly because it's another opportunity to pass the collection plate.
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:thinking: How many churches meet on Thursdays?
 
Your Star said:
Obviously, no.

It's an American holiday that has no roots in any religion.
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I could be wrong, but it's a British tradition and does have roots in religion, protestant if I'm not mistaken, but it is far less so now, here in the US and Canada because the US and Canada don't have a national religion, as Britain did, when the tradition began.
 
Dragonfly said:
Yes or no, and why please.
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The Fourth of July---Independence Day--- is another National holiday in which we give thanks...for our freedom... but that does not make it a religious holiday. It is a celebration of who we are, and what it took to become the country that we are.

Greetings, Dragonfly. :2wave:
 
Dragonfly said:
Yes or no, and why please.
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It is for us, because we are religious. When we give thanks, we're mainly giving thanks to God.


Well, also to the cooks. :)
 
Thanksgiving is an ancient post-harvest feast/festival.
 
Just like the German Erntedankfest or any number of other harvest festivals, this is all about appreciating what you have. People who believe in God thank God, naturally. Others thank human hard work, ingenuity, or random dumb luck (whichever applies). In America and Canada, it has an additional layer of meaning - the immigrant symbolism, and all that.

My favorite holiday, by the way, even though I don't like poultry.
 
MaggieD said:
Thanksgiving was celebrated as a religious holiday by the Pilgrims. It was enshrined as a National Holiday by Abraham Lincoln who proclaimed it: "a national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens."

Believe what you wish. *shrug*
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Maggie, it was celebrated long before Lincoln was ever born. Lincoln was simply a politician/dictator who wanted the various harvest festivals to celebrated on a specific day throughout the USA for pragmatic reasons unique to the USA's temporal situation the time. And he made an appeal to religion as part of his justification.
 
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Muhammed said:
Thanksgiving is an ancient post-harvest feast/festival.
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Giving thanks to who? Or what?

The farther back in time you go, the more religious it would appear to be. Even if it's not a biblical type of religion.
 
Dragonfly said:
Giving thanks to who? Or what?

The farther back in time you go, the more religious it would appear to be. Even if it's not a biblical type of religion.
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The feast isn't necessarily to give thanks to anything. It's an annual celebration.
 
But it's called "THANKS GIVING" and I assume the premise is to give thanks.

Also - the term "holiday" = holi day = holy day....
 
At first, I was going to say no. Then I thought back - the pilgrims were a very religious people. Part of the reason they left England was because of religious persecution. So for them to give thanks for not dying, as many did, and to have new friends, plenty to eat, when so many people had died before them -- I think it could be that it started as a religious holiday. I mean, the very name is "Thanksgiving." Who are you thanking, if not God? Or at least your God?
 
The fact that no religion recognizes Thanksgiving as a holiday to me means it is not religious. Thanksgiving is only celebrated by Americans. Some Christians do celebrate it here in America but the majority of Christians world wide do not. Thanksgiving is no more a religious holiday than the 4th of July, or Labor day or Cinco de Mayo.
 
Medusa said:
it is about food
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Short and sweet, and you're the only one who's right.

Thanksgiving is about food.

Some of the first settlers in America, we call Pilgrims, were starving and the Indians brought them food to eat. So they had a big dinner together, and now we celebrate that day by eating a lot of food.

So there you go, you were right.
 
Peter Grimm said:
Short and sweet, and you're the only one who's right.

Thanksgiving is about food.

Some of the first settlers in America, we call Pilgrims, were starving and the Indians brought them food to eat. So they had a big dinner together, and now we celebrate that day by eating a lot of food.

So there you go, you were right.
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:lol: merci my lord
 
Thankgiving is many different things to different people. But mainly its about good food, family, friends and football. And the beginning of the Xmas season.

BTW is this going to mean that Christians think that there is a war on Thanksgiving too? Please say yes, so that I can point out then that there is a war on the holiday season.
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