"Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday."
-John Clayton
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"The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.“
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"The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other."
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"Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ."
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"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."
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"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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"Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another."
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