Thanksgiving is often thought of as a secular holiday that originated with the Pilgrims and Native Americans in 1621. However, some argue that Thanksgiving has roots in ancient pagan harvest celebrations. In many ancient cultures, people would gather together at the end of the harvest season to give thanks for a bountiful crop. These celebrations often involved feasting, music, dancing, and giving thanks to the gods or spirits believed to preside over agriculture. For example, the ancient Greeks celebrated a harvest festival called Thesmophoria, dedicated to Demeter, the goddess of agriculture. This three-day event included fasting, feasting, and rituals aimed at ensuring a good harvest for the coming year.
However, not every Christian in England was happy with the Book of Common Prayer, finding it still too influenced by Catholic practice. The Pilgrims were among the English Protestant groups who rejected the Church of England’s more moderate reforms completely and wished to separate from it to form their own church communities – separatists – as opposed to the Puritans, who desired further reforms within the Church of England to “purify” it.
and still are today Both the Pilgrims and the Puritans which are two entirely separate groups, the Pilgrims were Separatists, not Puritans practiced the act of setting aside a religious day of worship to give thanks to God. The way some Americans celebrate Thanksgiving is far removed from the original intent, but that does not alter the real meaning and significance of the day.
This three-day event included fasting, feasting, and rituals aimed at ensuring a good harvest for the coming year. Similarly, the ancient Romans celebrated a harvest festival called Cerelia in honor of Ceres, the goddess of crops. This festival included processions, games, and prayers to Ceres for a successful harvest.
Thanksgiving a purely pagan celebration
It’s like someone doing massacres in your house then tells you to celebrate to forgive you.
Those who celebrate are really brainwashed
Early Criminals who made oppression and genocides for American ancestors, seized lands and removed people of America from their lands, from their crops…In search of gold. Then they wrote America’s fake history. They named them Red indians
While they were neither red nor Indians but native Americans
Haven’t you seen the mountains of piled up skeletons found when they were digging to build stadiums for Olympic games in the US more than 200 millions were killed
After that Puritan Christians shook hands with you and sat down with you in celebration for what they did for the torment they gave you
I urge you to listen to all of this Friday sermon
It’s so powerful
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https://www.spreaker.com/…/r…/a-warning-against-thanksgiving
Thanksgiving has a paganist origin🤔
America didn’t create Thanksgiving, it’s adopted.
Thanksgiving’s origins can be traced back to Greek and Roman harvest celebrations, by strict dictionary definition, this alone makes Thanksgiving a pagan holiday (ie, polytheistic)
The harvest festival was a pagan celebration, the religious thanksgiving was from the Church of England
In the 1800s Sarah Hale marketed the idea of a universal national American thanksgiving holiday that combined the religious thanksgivings with the harvest festival thanksgivings
SO BY CELEBRATING IT YOU MELT IN THE NEW WOLRD UNIVERSAL RELIGION (SYNCRETISM)
The cornucopia is a Greek & Roman religious symbol that can be traced back directly to the time of Jesus and further into the past
Adjustments of a pagan celebration does not make it halal. I.e Removing the pagan elements like “breaking the wish bone”
does not change the pagan origins of any holiday
The pagan harvest celebration called Harvest Home, (also called harvest thanksgiving) which originated in Church of England.
The cornucopia, a common symbol of Thanksgiving, originated from Roman and Greek mythology, from the horn of the Greek god Amalthea.
Thanksgiving Day (as a national celebration) was instituted with the intent, and by design, to be a holy day, not an ambiguously labeled “holiday”. There is no uncertainty about this, as we have primary historical references that prove this intent.
Prophet Muhammad ordered us not to celebrate other nation’s feasts or holi days
This the holy spirit of Thanksgiving Day. …That all may offer up, in one grand melody, that glorious hymn to the Creator, “Glory be to God on high, and on earth peace, good-will towards men.”
Godey’s Lady’s Book 1872
By the 6th century, the rulership of Rome had spread to England and there, the old Roman festival of Cerelia became known as the Harvest Home Festival and later Harvest Festival of Thanksgiving. The Church of England adopted this festival as a religious gathering but the festival was celebrated by both Christians and non-Christians; just like it is today. Over the next 1000 years, the Church of England went through many political battles with Rome over political and religious issues; causing certain groups within the church to split and travel to the Americas in search of gaining power, wealth and religious freedom there.
This war between the Puritans (and their allies from the Wampanoag tribe) and the so-called Indians became known as the Pequot War, and lasted from 1636-1638. However, the European armies prevailed and many Indians lost their lives in horrific fashion. In 1637 near present day Groton, Connecticut, the Puritan colonist raided the Indian Villages and burned over 700 men, women and children of the Pequot Tribe alive. The next day, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, declared “A Day Of Thanksgiving” to be celebrated in honor of killing the native Indians of the land. In his own words, Governor John Winthrop’s proclaimed: “This day forth shall be a day of celebration and thanksgiving for subduing the Pequots.”
After their victory over the so-called Indians, the colonist began to attack other villages; seizing their land, capturing strong young Natives for slaves and killing the rest. Women and children over 14 were sold into slavery while the rest were murdered. Boats loaded with as many as 500 slaves regularly left the ports of New England to other places. Following a very successful raid against the Pequot tribe in Stamford, Connecticut, the white churches announced a second day of “Thanksgiving” to give thanks to their God and celebrated victory over whom they called, the heathen savages. During the feasting, they played soccer with the chopped off heads of the natives and kicked them through the streets like soccer balls.
As other English and Dutch colonizers migrated to the US and settled in other Indian tribal territories, they also raided and murdered various indian tribes that were living their regions. These tribes included the: Lenape, Esopus, Tuscarora, Yamasee, Muscogee, Cherokee, Catawba, Apalachee, Apalachicola, Coyaha, Shawnee, Congaree, Waxhaw, Pedee, Cape Fear, Cheraw, Pays d’en haut, Mingo, and many other tribes. Each of the tribes went to war against their colonizers and many of their members were murdered; presumably followed by a thanksgiving feast in honor of the Europeans victory over the natives.
Stop celebrating this holiday feast as it represents the European’s murder of the indigenous people of the American land and it is actually rooted in paganism.
And it is my hope that by you reading this article that you will be challenged to withdraw your participation from this pagan genocidal celebration as well.
🌱Al Imam Addahabi said on this Ayah
(5:51) O you who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians as Auliya’ (friends, protectors, helpers, etc.), they are but Auliya’ to one another. And if any amongst you takes them as Auliya’, then surely he is one of them. Verily, Allah guides not those people who are the Zalimun (polytheists and wrong-doers and unjust
♦️Adahabi said that from the ways of taking them (Jews and Christians) is taking part of any level with their festivals and celebrations. Whilst, they would be ordered to hide their own celebrations in non Muslim countries. And no one does that except the weak in his faith and ignorant. Whoever immitates a people in their religion then he is from amongst them
The interpreter Mujahid ( the direct student of Abd Allah Ibn Abbas) said on this Ayah
(25:72) And those who do not witness falsehood, and if they pass by some evil play or evil talk, they pass by it with dignity.
Mujahid said that falsehood here are the celebrations and holidays of the kuffar
Islam came strange and has returned strange majority are mostly on falsehood
Imam Dahabi said when taking part in such pagan celebrations you automatically raise your kids to love non Muslims and their traditions and beliefsso what a horrible and ignorant Muslim you are then
That Thanksgiving is a mere thinking Allah
The answer is whomever resembles a people in their religion is one of them
In another narration he will be resurrected with them
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Compiled by #Ask #A #Muslim
Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! . THAT the American People shall have an annual Thanksgiving Festival after the ingathering of their harvests is now a settled matter. Every State and Territory has, in some way, signified its willingness to adopt this venerable custom, which we recognize in the Jewish “Feast of Weeks ,” as appointed by Jehovah for His Chosen People.
Sarah Hale, Godey's Lady's Book 1859
In northern Europe, the harvest festivals of the pagan religions also involved giving thanks to the gods for a successful harvest. The Anglo-Saxons celebrated a festival called "Harvest Home," during which they would offer the "first fruits" of the harvest to their deities. When Europeans began colonizing North America, they brought their harvest traditions with them. The Pilgrims and Puritans who settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts, had a strong religious background and likely would have been familiar with the harvest festivals of their ancestors. While the specific details of the first Thanksgiving celebrated by the Pilgrims and Native Americans are not well-documented, it is plausible that their gathering was influenced by these ancient pagan traditions of giving thanks for a successful harvest. Overall, while Thanksgiving is now primarily associated with the Pilgrims and Native Americans, it is interesting to consider the possible pagan roots of this holiday. The act of giving thanks for a bountiful harvest is a universal human experience that transcends cultural and religious boundaries..
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