Thanksgiving Day is a harvest festival celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. Traditionally, it has been a time to give thanks for a bountiful harvest. While it may have been religious in origin, Thanksgiving is now primarily identified as a secular holiday.[1] It is sometimes casually referred to as Turkey Day.
There are many myths and misconceptions surrounding the people responsible for the American Thanksgiving tradition. Contrary to popular opinion, the Pilgrims didn't wear buckles on their shoes or hats. They weren't teetotalers, either. They smoked tobacco and drank beer. And, most importantly, their first harvest festival and subsequent "thanksgivings" weren't held to thank the local natives for saving their lives.
It was religion they were fleeing from England and it did not take long to start practicing religion here and thereby have a day of celebration to God.
Of course this land was build on and for both believers and unbelievers and I would like to know how many that day may of not believed in a God but did not speak up.
We should give thanks this Thanksgiving day we still have freedom here to believe or not believe and more important have the freedom to be able to say so!
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