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On the Other Hand
"Many Americans make Thanksgiving into a religious festival. They agree with Lincoln, who, upon declaring Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, said that "we have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven." They ascribe our material abundance to God's efforts, not man's.
" That view is a slap in the face of any person who has worked an honest day in his life."
" That view is a slap in the face of any person who has worked an honest day in his life."
more to the point
your family a wonderful day!
+S.
Re: more to the point
By the way, I think the Randians have a point, that it is a very good thing to celebrate our own creativity and productivity and what they have created and produced. If they can't see that as a gift of God, even as a participation in the divine action, maybe we believers have given them an all too poor conception of God.