Comments on: How can the nontheist be thankful on Thanksgiving?

By: watercat

watercat — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:41:47 +0000

orDover @ 3: that's awesome. You did more good with that than a million prayers would do. a thanksgiving unprayer

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:00:37 +0000

Everyone-

Here is the post that got me thinking:

http://www.times-herald.com/opinion/op-ed/A-few-religious-thoughts-to-ponder-595375

By: orDover

orDover — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:37:49 +0000

Oh common, INTJ Mom, who do you think helped the Pilgrims survive that hard year? Their hard work ethic? The native Americans? Nope. Jesus.

By: INTJ Mom

INTJ Mom — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:57:42 +0000

How interesting. I’ve never thought of Thanksgiving as a religious holiday. Not even when I was religious. I’ve always thought of it as a day to be wtih family and eat a lot of good food. I’ve always thought people can be thankful for good things in their lives without needing to direct that thanks toward anyone (like a god). As a country tradition and holiday, Thanksgiving has always been more of a symbol of the early history of the US to me & symbolic of people working together to survive.

This whole religious angle is news to me. I guess I’ve been a bit dense!

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:15:41 +0000

LeoPardus -

Thank you

By: LeoPardus

LeoPardus — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:48:43 +0000

Josh:

All emotions are directed upward and it leaves the other person feeling empty and like a pawn in a cosmic dictatorship.

You have a way with a phrase.

No wonder Christians think everyone in the world has a void that needs filling: the deeper Christians get into the faith, the bigger their own personal void becomes and the more they think they need Jesus. The more they have this void, the more it convinces them that Jesus is filling it somehow and the more they commit themselves to ministry. And around and around we go!

And with logic.

By: aforcier

aforcier — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:36:49 +0000

very good comments.

gratitude is the key to happiness And greater happiness is recived from giving thanks to the “forms” of nature than to an imaginary overseer in the sky.

http://www.ANaturalPhilosophy.com

By: Digital Dame

Digital Dame — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:46:14 +0000

Richard,

Beautiful piece, very eloquent.

By: The de-Convert

The de-Convert — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:53:22 +0000

ssf,

Edit your wordpress profile to include your blog url (in “Primary Blog”) and it will send some visitors to your blog as you comment on other blogs.

Paul

By: Kristopia

Kristopia — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:28:28 +0000

I’m thankful that I’ve chosen to live in a state where the only relative is my daughter, so I won’t have to deal this year with those awkward issues because I’m the only non-fundamentalist. So it will be my daughter, and five of my friends as well. I’m thankful that I can thank myself and other people in my life, and not any invisible beings.

Good post.