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Hmmm ?[-(

Do commies celebrate anything besides May Day and Labor Day?

They celebrate "Thankstaking" instead..

Fuzz will be here to criticize you and your question after he's done baking pumpkin spice cookies for the doorman.

I think the question should be "do atheists celebrate Thanksgiving?" If so, whom do they thank? Mother Earth, luck, fate, Obama?

Thanksgiving isn't a religious holiday.




Sorry...Fuzz is probably busy, so I'll fill in for now.

I don't know about that. I think we're supposed to be giving thanks to someone like God.

You’re not a very good “fill in” as there was no cursing, belittlement and personal attacks in your response.

First “Thanksgiving” in America was on Dec 4th, 1619, celebrated by English settlers in Virginia. The leader of the group, Captain Woodlief declared:

"We ordain that the day of our ship`s arrival at the place assigned for plantacon in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God."

In 1777, the Continental Congress appointed a day of Thanksgiving. Their proclamation stated:

“It is therefore recommended to the legislative or executive Powers of these UNITED STATES to set apart THURSDAY, the eighteenth Day of December next, for SOLEMN THANKSGIVING and PRAISE: That at one Time and with one Voice, the good People may express the grateful Feelings of their Hearts, and consecrate themselves to the Service of their Divine Benefactor."

Lincoln proclaimed the first National day of Thanksgiving in 1863. His proclamation read:

"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."

Of course the day has since been secularized, just like Christmas and Easter, but it’s origin was religious. Today, we may as well change the name to “Turkey and Football” day.

And here I thought we were being thankful for turkeys for being so tasty.