The original Thanksgiving was about surviving in a strange land, amongst strange people. AFTER surviving a long, horrible sea journey to escape religious persecution. It wasn't about what came afterwards.
All the holidays have some bad things associated with them.
Halloween/Samhain: This is the time of year when the walls separating the dead from the living are the thinnest. You are supposed to dress up as something other than yourself so that you confuse the demons. The demons that want to either 1) steal your soul, 2) kill you, or 3) both.
Christmas/Yule/New Years: Christmas was a holiday that was stolen from the pagans for starters. And 80's revival aside, DON'T get me started on the Druids and the others that celebrated Yule. Look up the history of the people unearthed from the peat bogs and how they ended up there. Drunk driving has been around as long as there have been animals to ride, and alcohol to drink. New Years has just been a convenient excuse to combine the two.
Easter/Passover is the creepiest of them all. Passover celebrates the host of invisible angels 'passing over' the homes of the first born children that have been marked with blood. The invisible angels who go on to kill the children living in homes not marked with blood.
As the newest holiday, Thanksgiving is the safest one to celebrate. It has the lowest bodycount.
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Date: 2013-11-04 12:19 am (UTC)All the holidays have some bad things associated with them.
Halloween/Samhain: This is the time of year when the walls separating the dead from the living are the thinnest. You are supposed to dress up as something other than yourself so that you confuse the demons. The demons that want to either 1) steal your soul, 2) kill you, or 3) both.
Christmas/Yule/New Years: Christmas was a holiday that was stolen from the pagans for starters. And 80's revival aside, DON'T get me started on the Druids and the others that celebrated Yule. Look up the history of the people unearthed from the peat bogs and how they ended up there. Drunk driving has been around as long as there have been animals to ride, and alcohol to drink. New Years has just been a convenient excuse to combine the two.
Easter/Passover is the creepiest of them all. Passover celebrates the host of invisible angels 'passing over' the homes of the first born children that have been marked with blood. The invisible angels who go on to kill the children living in homes not marked with blood.
As the newest holiday, Thanksgiving is the safest one to celebrate. It has the lowest bodycount.