I'm beginning to see it as increasingly important to not just "go along" with "traditional" customs and celebrations to be polite, and not make waves.
I'm starting to see it as important to take a stand, and not just allow people who would have their beliefs usurp all others, control the popular perception of history and "thruthiness."
Consequently, I'm no longer going to celebrate Thanksgiving. And I'm not just going to not celebrate it. I'm going to not celebrate it in a very open, and opinionated way.
Thanksgiving is not about the founding and establishment of the United States as a sovereign nation. Thanksgiving is not a religious holiday. And the founding and establishment of the United States as a sovereign nation is not a religious phenomenon.
And I am fed up with people trying to shove their perception of any of that down my throat.
Important things that happened in history are not important, and are not recognized or celebrated, because there happened to be a Christian there. There are very few traditions and celebrations that we recognize today that actually had anything to do with Christianity, in reality. Christianity has just usurped just about everything to make it seem that way.
The only unique, true and exclusive holiday that celebrates the founding and establishment of the United States as a sovereign nation is Independence Day. NOT a religious holiday, by any stretch of the imagination.
Thanksgiving is about noting the survival of a group of Christian pilgrims who traveled across an ocean to settle here. And they would not have survived were it not for the help of the PAGANS who already lived here. The pilgrims really had nothing to do with the founding of the United States. They were dead by then. As long as it was up to them, the white settlers here remained under British rule.
The fact that they were Christians is incidental, by the way. It's the fact that they survived, that is celebrated at Thanksgiving. And considering who saved their asses, if it is a religious celebration, it should be a pagan one.
The only reason that Thankgiving is now as big a holiday as it is, in the United State, is it's proximity to Christmas. And it's the retail phenomenon that surrounds Thanksgiving and Christmas that keeps those holidays as important as they are, in the United States.
Macy's, Gimbal's and Bloomingdale's made Thanksgiving and Christmas what they are. Pilgrims and Jesus Christ did not.
Deal with it.
