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What is Thanksgiving in United States means or stand for?
7 Answers
- ?Lv 72 years ago
It is actually just a continuation of the pagan celebration of harvest! 3,000 years before Christianity!
It is the sad time when Christians try to make America Christian when that is against the constitution!
The government of the United States of America is, in no sense, founded on the Christian religion. Treaty of Tripoli, Article 11. Ratified unanimously by the senate and signed by founding father and second president, John Adams, in 1797.
The U.S. Constitution is a secular document. It begins, "We the people," and contains no mention of "God" or "Christianity." Its only references to religion are exclusionary, such as, "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust" (Art. VI), and "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" (First Amendment). The presidential oath of office, the only oath detailed in the Constitution, does not contain the phrase "so help me God" or any requirement to swear on a bible (Art. II, Sec. 1, Clause 8).
- Anonymous2 years ago
Something something football, something something beer, something turkey, something something annoying family, something something something darkside.
- MackenzieLv 72 years ago
It's rooted in harvest festivals but it was established in the 1850s when the American family was deteriorating due to the Industrial Revolution. A magazine editor spent 40 years writing everyone & their mother to have the holiday made to bring families back together.
It's a day meant to focus on hearth & home, and to cultivate an attitude of gratitude.
In the late 1800s they found out that the Pilgrims & Native Americans celebrated Thanksgiving once in the 1621 and that romanticized story took off, but most of that story is a lot of fakelore. That really had little to do with the holiday getting started, it wasn't even the first one (it wasn't even the first one in North America, it was just the Pilgrim's first one on the continent).
- Anonymous2 years ago
It is a day when Caucasian-Americans celebrate the theft of America from its inhabitants.
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- Anonymous2 years ago
I don't know.
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