Thanksgiving Message 2021
By James Donahue
Millions of Americans this week are gathering with their families to stuff themselves on rich food before retiring to the status of couch potato while their television poisons their brains.
They may joke about what they are doing, knowing at least subconsciously that it is misguided. Since Thanksgiving has become an American tradition they are using herd mentality and doing it anyway. It is the beginning of a month -long holiday season filled with gluttony, spangles and pure ugliness all committed in the name of Jesus.
This is the way Americans celebrate this particular holiday. It is a day of over indulgence with rich food, a day of family feuding, a day of televised football. Of belching, farting and feeling bloated. At least that is how it is for those who still have jobs.
Those numbers are dwindling.
For many this is not a day of celebration. America is the only nation that marks a day like this to commemorate the conclusion of the year's harvest (did you forget?), there are more people than ever living in dire poverty.
Because of run -away inflation people with low -paying jobs barely have the price of a can of beans. For them: forget the turkey dinner, unless some public charity comes to their aid or they can find a Salvation Army kitchen within walking distance.
More people are said to be living on the streets of America today than at any time during the Great Depression. The concept of Thanksgiving was established by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, but was never made a nation holiday by Congress until 1941. Thus the holiday is not an old one and there really is no tradition. Contrary to public myth, it did not originate with the Pilgrims at Plymouth.
The celebration of the autumn harvest, however, is ancient. It falls near the Autumn Equinox and is part of man's relationship to the natural cycles of the Mother Earth.
By James Donahue
Millions of Americans this week are gathering with their families to stuff themselves on rich food before retiring to the status of couch potato while their television poisons their brains.
They may joke about what they are doing, knowing at least subconsciously that it is misguided. Since Thanksgiving has become an American tradition they are using herd mentality and doing it anyway. It is the beginning of a month -long holiday season filled with gluttony, spangles and pure ugliness all committed in the name of Jesus.
This is the way Americans celebrate this particular holiday. It is a day of over indulgence with rich food, a day of family feuding, a day of televised football. Of belching, farting and feeling bloated. At least that is how it is for those who still have jobs.
Those numbers are dwindling.
For many this is not a day of celebration. America is the only nation that marks a day like this to commemorate the conclusion of the year's harvest (did you forget?), there are more people than ever living in dire poverty.
Because of run -away inflation people with low -paying jobs barely have the price of a can of beans. For them: forget the turkey dinner, unless some public charity comes to their aid or they can find a Salvation Army kitchen within walking distance.
More people are said to be living on the streets of America today than at any time during the Great Depression. The concept of Thanksgiving was established by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, but was never made a nation holiday by Congress until 1941. Thus the holiday is not an old one and there really is no tradition. Contrary to public myth, it did not originate with the Pilgrims at Plymouth.
The celebration of the autumn harvest, however, is ancient. It falls near the Autumn Equinox and is part of man's relationship to the natural cycles of the Mother Earth.