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Do atheists celebrate Thanksgiving? (1 Viewer)

I don't, but can't you be thankful without being thankful to God?

I'm thankful I've got great parents and friends. I'm also thankful for my truck, and the fact that the Chiefs might make the playoffs.

 
dozer said:
I don't, but can't you be thankful without being thankful to God?

I'm thankful I've got great parents and friends. I'm also thankful for my truck, and the fact that the Chiefs might make the playoffs.
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Nope. The emotions and expressions of thanks must be reserved for a deity, otherwise it is just a soulless attempt to feel human which no atheist is capable of.
 
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Jayrod said:
dozer said:
I don't, but can't you be thankful without being thankful to God?

I'm thankful I've got great parents and friends. I'm also thankful for my truck, and the fact that the Chiefs might make the playoffs.
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Nope. The emotions and expressions of thanks must be reserved for a deity, otherwise it is just a soulless attempt to feel human which no atheist is capable of.
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:hophead:
 
They give thanks to beings that actually exist rather than a diety that only provides a false sense of meaning to their otherwise empty lives.

 
Jayrod said:
dozer said:
I don't, but can't you be thankful without being thankful to God?

I'm thankful I've got great parents and friends. I'm also thankful for my truck, and the fact that the Chiefs might make the playoffs.
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Nope. The emotions and expressions of thanks must be reserved for a deity, otherwise it is just a soulless attempt to feel human which no atheist is capable of.
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Good :coffee:
 
Jayrod said:
dozer said:
I don't, but can't you be thankful without being thankful to God?

I'm thankful I've got great parents and friends. I'm also thankful for my truck, and the fact that the Chiefs might make the playoffs.
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Nope. The emotions and expressions of thanks must be reserved for a deity, otherwise it is just a soulless attempt to feel human which no atheist is capable of.
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:goodposting:
 
I give "thanks". I am an athiest...though really an agnostic. Either way, Thanksgiving has less to do with religion than either Valentine's Day or Halloween.

 
Google celebrates it, so it must be some evil pagan holiday from Satan with socialist elitist undertones.

 
Thanksgiving is about being thankful for what you have and the people in your life. "Who" you're thankful to is irrellevant IMO, it's "what" you are thankful for.

Thanksgiving is my personal favorite holiday, bar none. It's all about food, family and FOOTBALL!

Lot's of football. :goodposting:

 
I am thankful the Lions won't be an embarrassment. They will likely lose, but it should be a good game.

 
dozer said:
I don't, but can't you be thankful without being thankful to God?I'm thankful I've got great parents and friends. I'm also thankful for my truck, and the fact that the Chiefs might make the playoffs.
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Not with that defense, friend.
 
Thanksgiving is the best holiday by far.

No cards or gifts. Awesome food. Family and friends over. And football. I don't think they could design a more perfect holiday.

I don't give thanks to anyone or anything on Thanksgiving. I just enjoy it.

 
kutta said:
Thanksgiving is the best holiday by far.No cards or gifts. Awesome food. Family and friends over. And football. I don't think they could design a more perfect holiday.
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:thumbup: I'd just add I love the weather this time of year, the seasonal beers that are available, and the fact that it always results in a 4+ day weekend. It really is the best holiday by far.
I don't give thanks to anyone or anything on Thanksgiving. I just enjoy it.
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I do try to pause and reflect for a moment on all the things I am thankful for - just sort of an annual reminder to not take everything I have for granted, because it's easy to forget that. But mostly I just enjoy it. :lmao:
 
It's not so much about giving thanks as it is about being glad I've got it. It's a day of smug contentment and gluttony. If you can design me a better atheist holiday, I'd like to hear about it.

 
Agnostic. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.

I get to eat, smoke, drink and watch football all day until I pass out on the Pound me in the ###!

 
Detroit Fan 365 said:
Thanksgiving is not a religious holiday.
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Leeroy Jenkins said:
Thanksgiving is religious?
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Actually, Thanksgiving's roots are in the pagan harvest holidays/festivals:

"The Pilgrims, who in 1621 observed our initial Thanksgiving holiday, were not a people especially enthusiastic about the celebration of festivals. In fact these austere and religious settlers of America would have been dismayed had they known of the long and popular history of harvest festivals, of which their Thanksgiving was only the latest. .... The harvest festival, with its attendant rites, seems to have spread out from ... Egypt and Syria and Mesopotamia. The first or the last sheaf of wheat was offered to the `Great Mother' .... Astarte [equivalent to Ishtar and Eastre] was the Earth Mother of the ancient Semites; to the Phrygians she was Semele; under the name of Demeter she was worshiped by the Greeks at the famous Eleusinian Mysteries..." - pp. 271-272, Celebrations - The Complete Book of American Holidays, Robert J. Myers, Doubleday & Co., 1972
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Thomas Jefferson claimed he could not set aside a day of thanks because of the First Amendment:

http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letters-of-thomas-jefferson/jefl183.php

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That all said, modern day Thanksgiving is very rarely thought of as a religious holiday. Those that believe in a deity would, by their nature, give thanks to that deity along with their other thanks for the day, while atheists would leave out the deity when giving thanks.

 
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