what does Thanksgiving mean too you if you are an Atheist?

I am thankful to God ,because He has blessed our

Family, He has not given Me what I deserve;

I am 65 yrs of age and He has given Me Health,-

Equipment Operator Jobs,and Delivered Me,so Many Times.I deserve Hell ,but Jesus gave me a Pardon,I will be Telling it on the Hills of Glory a Thousand Years from Now;It never gets old, How can You not Love a God like that?

Thanksgiving to me is about family (or friends), great food, football, taking a nap and of course more food (leftovers).

My family has never used a religious prayer or blessing before a Thanksgiving meal. Usually someone just gives a "speech" about being thankful for the family being together, growing in size with births & marriages.

Well, Thanksgiving isn't a religious holiday (it was started in 1789), and was really to celebrate the birth of the nation after the revolutionary war and to celebrate the new constitution after the articles of confederation were scrapped.

As for what I do (agnostic / buddhist), I eat, sleep a little, have a bit of alcohol, and watch football.

I spend time with my family and enjoy their company (and eat a lot). I'm still thankful for my loved ones and my life even if I don't think there's a deity who somehow gave them to me. I imagine my Thanksgiving will be incredibly similar to yours, with the exception of the short prayer before dinner.

When did thanksgiving become a christian holiday? I can understand how people can incorporate christianity into it, but I wasn't aware it was ever considered a christian holiday.

Being "thankful" doesn't mean that I have to be thankful to a particular god. I can enjoy and appreciate the time I get to spend with my family without relating it to religion.

Thanksgiving isn't a "Christian" holiday. It started because the Pilgrims wanted to thank the Indians for helping them survive, i.e. teaching them to fish, and grow corn.

I give thanks for my family, friends, and that the hard work that my husband and I put forth in college and at lesser jobs, paid off and brought us to where we are today. We have a nice spread of all the traditional Thanksgiving day foods.

We usually nibble on side dishes and drink. We also lament over the fact that our ancestors helped the Europeans survive here. Pondering on whether or not they would have persisted on colonizing the Americas if that had not happened. This is done in a lighthearted nature.

Whats thanksgiving?

I hate to break it to ya, but Thanksgiving is a secular holiday recognizing how thankful the first Pilgrims were to the local native tribes, for feeding them through that first awful winter. Without the help of the local natives, all the Pilgrims would probably have died.

we do the same thing but i watch the parad and football. i also talk to my boy friend. years!!! but we usually say the prayers and thank god for everything and talk to friends again and eat eat eat. that's what thanksgiving is for.