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THE QUESTION
Non-Believers and Thanksgiving
Is Thanksgiving a religious holiday? If so, who does one thank and for what? Should non-believers celebrate Thanksgiving?
Posted by
Sally Quinn and Jon Meacham on November 22, 2006 11:30 AM
FROM THE PANEL
It's Not For Me To Say
Whom to thank? To answer that goes to the heart of a free people in a free land, to the freedom of every human being to ask the deepest questions...Or not to ask.
Posted by William Tully, on November 24, 2006 12:00 PM
Thanksgiving Without A Giver?
The secular vision of thanksgiving feels empty and false. If there is no Creator and the universe is a cosmic accident, whom do we thank?
Posted by R. Albert Mohler Jr., on November 24, 2006 10:00 AM
"Thanks-giving" Is Religious Act
Saying "thank you"...is being religious. Somehow.
Posted by Martin Marty, on November 24, 2006 8:00 AM
Thanksgiving's Basic Nature Is Religious
About the position of non-believers vis-à-vis Thanksgiving: it really depends on what kind of non-believers they are.
Posted by Adin Steinsaltz, on November 23, 2006 5:00 PM
The View from Britain
I do not know how easy it will be to maintain the national, all-embracing character of Thanksgiving in the US, but I very much hope it will
Posted by Julia Neuberger, on November 23, 2006 3:00 PM
Interfaith Thanksgiving Services Made Jews Feel Welcome
The ritual of sitting at a holiday family meal at home fits comfortably with Jewish practices of such meals during the High Holidays and, of course, the Passover Seder.
Posted by David Saperstein, on November 23, 2006 2:00 PM
Gratitude Is A Powerful Motivator
There is something poignant about setting aside a time primarily to express unconditional thanks.
Posted by Michael Otterson, on November 23, 2006 12:41 PM
A Thanksgiving Prayer
Thanksgiving is a national civic festival when all Americans celebrate the triumph of theory over practice, word over deed, and promise over fulfillment.
Posted by John Dominic Crossan, on November 23, 2006 10:30 AM
A Thanksgiving Dream Come True
Why shouldn't nonbelievers partake of the turkey and...give thanks for the diversity of this life?
Posted by Salman Ahmad, on November 23, 2006 10:22 AM
Thanksgiving As An Environmental Holiday
Let’s take our cue from the Wampanoag and John Calvin and Abraham Lincoln and make Thanksgiving THE environmental holiday
Posted by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, on November 23, 2006 8:00 AM
Thanksgiving A Tradition But Not An Obligation
On Thanksgiving we are asked to thank God but freedom includes the right not to thank Him.
Posted by Cal Thomas, on November 22, 2006 9:00 PM
An All-American Equal Opportunity Holiday
There is no shortage of secular entities for a freethinker to thank
Posted by Susan Jacoby, on November 22, 2006 4:45 PM
Gratitude Leads To Happiness
The solution to...unhappiness...is a reawakening in the human heart of the idea of gratitude
Posted by William J. Byron, on November 22, 2006 4:15 PM
Pagans Are Thankful for Religious Freedom
This year I’m also thinking about the empty chairs, the families whose sons and daughters will not come home from Iraq, the hundreds of thousands of families in that land who are left bereaved, shattered, homeless.
Posted by Starhawk, on November 22, 2006 4:00 PM
Thank Goodness Not God on Thanksgiving
We nonbelievers have no difficulty with Thanksgiving; we just Eliminate the Middleman
Posted by Daniel C. Dennett, on November 22, 2006 12:00 PM
Reflection on Thanksgiving
Thankfulness belongs to our human emotional equipment
Posted by Gardner Calvin Taylor, on November 22, 2006 11:15 AM
A Day to Give Thanks for Blessings on Our Nation
Is Thanksgiving a religious holiday? Most certainly!
Posted by John Bryson Chane, on November 22, 2006 10:30 AM
FEATURED COMMENTS
FSC: Based on some of the responses, it seems many see 'Thanksgiving' in the limited context of the USA's scheduled holiday. 'Thanksgiving' is a ...
edxmd: In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln established a national holiday in the United States as “a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficen...
Brian: Wait just a minute. Thanksgiving is not about me? Are you really telling me that something out there is more important than me and deservi...
