GUEST COLUMN: The balanced history of our Thanksgiving celebration

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Christians love Thanksgiving because it is a pure and simple giving of thanks for what God has blessed us with in this life. Thanksgiving is thanks toward God, not toward man. That may explain, in part, why it is minimized in our culture. It is also not as profitable for retailers and advertisers like Black Friday and other materialistic shopping days. We are blessed with prosperity and freedom in America. American colonists primarily came to the new world to escape religious persecution. They learned the government should stay out of enforcing religious rules but, at the same time, the people were very religious and Bible oriented.

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