“Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.”
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The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.
There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.
Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
