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what does Thanksgiving mean too you if you are an Atheist?

before my familys Thanksgiving meal we say the blessing and a thankful prayer to God for another yr. What do you do?

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  1. Eat turkey.
  2. Nothing. I don't celebrate greeting card holidays.
  3. Thanksgiving is also a secular holiday. I celebrate it NON-religiously.
  4. We enjoy the company of family, good food, and thankful that we have both.
  5. Get together, eat, laugh and enjoy the paid day off. No time wasted on silly blessings.
  6. I didn't know it's a religious celebration. I'm not an atheist, but we don't have that in Romania
  7. I thank my lucky stars I was born in the U.S.A.
  8. Thanksgiving is not a religious holiday. Thanksgiving to me means being thankful for what I have, moreso than usual, and lots of pie, turkey, etc. And I get mine TWICE. WOOT! Daddy's cooking tomorrow, Mommy's cooking on Thursday. Damn I love divorce.
  9. Another good reason to get fat.
  10. Thanksgiving is not a religious holiday.
  11. It means be thankful that you're not dead, because that's the end of it for you.
  12. nothing...i usually work
  13. May the Lord help these atheists understand the Christian meaning
  14. we do the same thing but i watch the parad and football. i also talk to my boy friend. years!!! but we usually say the prayers and thank god for everything and talk to friends again and eat eat eat. that's what thanksgiving is for.
  15. I hate to break it to ya, but Thanksgiving is a secular holiday recognizing how thankful the first Pilgrims were to the local native tribes, for feeding them through that first awful winter. Without the help of the local natives, all the Pilgrims would probably have died.
  16. I spend time with my family and enjoy their company (and eat a lot). I'm still thankful for my loved ones and my life even if I don't think there's a deity who somehow gave them to me. I imagine my Thanksgiving will be incredibly similar to yours, with the exception of the short prayer before dinner.
  17. =not american
  18. Whats thanksgiving?
  19. Eat and watch football and thank my mom for cooking the stuffing.
  20. A peaceful quiet day in the lab. Dinner with my family that evening.
  21. Thanksgiving has nothing to do with religion or atheism for that matter. It celebrates when the Puritans started the deception of the Native Americans.
  22. Another Peanuts holiday special!!!!
  23. A great meal. j/k I am thankful that my children, wife and Family are all healthy. I do not have to have a belief in a God to be thankful.
  24. what does religion have to do with thanksgiving? its celebrating the coming together of the indians and pilgrims. i can garantee you the native americans were not christian.
  25. Thanksgiving to me is about family (or friends), great food, football, taking a nap and of course more food (leftovers). My family has never used a religious prayer or blessing before a Thanksgiving meal. Usually someone just gives a "speech" about being thankful for the family being together, growing in size with births & marriages.
  26. When did thanksgiving become a christian holiday? I can understand how people can incorporate christianity into it, but I wasn't aware it was ever considered a christian holiday. Being "thankful" doesn't mean that I have to be thankful to a particular god. I can enjoy and appreciate the time I get to spend with my family without relating it to religion.
  27. Thanksgiving isn't a "Christian" holiday. It started because the Pilgrims wanted to thank the Indians for helping them survive, i.e. teaching them to fish, and grow corn. I give thanks for my family, friends, and that the hard work that my husband and I put forth in college and at lesser jobs, paid off and brought us to where we are today. We have a nice spread of all the traditional Thanksgiving day foods.
  28. Well, Thanksgiving isn't a religious holiday (it was started in 1789), and was really to celebrate the birth of the nation after the revolutionary war and to celebrate the new constitution after the articles of confederation were scrapped. As for what I do (agnostic / buddhist), I eat, sleep a little, have a bit of alcohol, and watch football.
  29. We usually nibble on side dishes and drink. We also lament over the fact that our ancestors helped the Europeans survive here. Pondering on whether or not they would have persisted on colonizing the Americas if that had not happened. This is done in a lighthearted nature.
  30. Nothing
  31. One can be thankful for family and friends, a prosperous community, good health, and so on; without having to ascribe them to a magickal sky fairy.
  32. I just eat turkey like crazy and drink beer until I pass out!
  33. It would appear you are assuming Atheist have nothing to be thankful for and no one to be thankful to simply because we do not believe your deity of choice exists... You are far from correct we express our thanks for and to other people...
  34. as was intended - we celebrate the harvest season and the gathering of family.
  35. I am thankful to God ,because He has blessed our Family, He has not given Me what I deserve; I am 65 yrs of age and He has given Me Health,- Equipment Operator Jobs,and Delivered Me,so Many Times.I deserve Hell ,but Jesus gave me a Pardon,I will be Telling it on the Hills of Glory a Thousand Years from Now;It never gets old, How can You not Love a God like that?
  36. If you are also an America, it is a celebration of your history and the survival of the colonists which made America possible.
  37. though i'm not an atheist i am on the opposite spectrum. i believe in GOD AND the GODDESS! =oP so we thank GOD for His mercy and we thank the GODDESS, mother EArth for her bounty. and then we have to list all the things we are grateful for.
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