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This gem is from Christian Newswire:
The war over Thanksgiving as a holiday began when a generation was taught that the holiday's first setting was Pilgrims being saved from starvation by Native Americans. This war continues with a President that defines it as a time to thank each other.Thanking your neighbor or Native Americans for teaching Pilgrims to fish and grow crops is not un-Christian. Redefining Thanksgiving as anything other than a call to give thanks to the one true and living God is an attempt to remove God from America's one true Christian holiday.So before we reenlist to defeat the war on Christmas, take this one day to win the war over Thanksgiving by forgetting what President Obama said and remembering what President Washington said.
There is a difference between standing up for belief (taking a position in respect to an issue), whining (peevish self pity), and sarcasm (harsh derision or irony).
The histories of both Christmas and Thanksgiving are founded on Christian beliefs and symbols. Around the world, non-Christians have adopted the celebrations and later adapted them as secular holidays. (Be the way, the word "holidays" itself comes from "holy days.") Many Christians want to restore the original meaning of the holidays, making them spiritually significant again by removing both secularism and commercialism from celebrations that are inherently Christian.
Regardless of our religious or political views in life, we all need to practice respect, consideration, and decency to all those around us. Otherwise, the human spirit will dry up, disconnect from one another, cease to commune in any spiritual way, and fail to find anything to celebrate about.
Anything so they can whine about how persecuted they are and try to make it all about them.
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