What is Thanksgiving all about? | Rapp Report Daily 0190 | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. Have you stuffed your face now with your Thanksgiving Day turkey?
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- Many don't realize that what Thanksgiving was really about was people giving thanks to God for the much that he provided, and we do it celebrating one another.
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- Now that first Thanksgiving was, well, three days long, and we just make it a one -day dinner. Now what some people may not realize is that Thanksgiving was the fourth
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- Thursday of the month since Abraham Lincoln, up until, believe it or not, 1939.
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- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to move up the holiday one week to spur on retail sales in a time during the
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- Great Depression. He was trying to use it for economic gains. That actually came under some hardship.
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- People didn't quite like that. And so, because of the opposition, in 1941, he regulated it, and for the first time it became the fourth
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- Thursday of the month. There's very few of us that are old enough to remember having the Thanksgiving on the last
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- Thursday of the month. You'd have to be, well, in your 90s probably, 70 years old or older, but to remember that.
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- And so the reality is you end up seeing that the holiday became about football and marketing. Football because the
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- NFL had started, and what they did to try to promote the NFL was create a football game on that day, and that has become the tradition.
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- It's about Thanksgiving Day turkey and football. And what's it also known for? Well, marketing.
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- It is known for Black Friday now, for the day that people go and start their Christmas shopping, and it has lost the real goal of giving thanks to God.
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