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Did you know that Thanksgiving was started by Catholics

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You sure seem very angry and not like yourself lately Mikhael. Be yourself. Not somebody else.
Those pilgrims weren't Catholic. They came for a better life. I'm not being angry.

But I am irritable for a lot of reasons.
 
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Those pilgrims weren't Catholic. They came for a better life. I'm not being angry.

But I am irritable for a lot of reasons.
I could tell you have been very short.
 
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Those pilgrims weren't Catholic. They came for a better life. I'm not being angry.

You apparently did not read the document. First off, there were two Thanksgivings that took place decades before the pilgrims. In those two, Catholic Mass was said.

Secondly, the Thanksgiving that we usually think of with the pilgrims, if you had read the document you would have read that the pilgrims were Calvinists who left England partially because the Church of England to too Catholic for them, and the King was forcing them. They were persecuted by the Church of England. They came to the New World to worship as they pleased.

The Catholic in the story is the Indian, Squanto, who orchestrated the first Thanksgiving of the pilgrims. He taught the pilgrims how to fertilize the ground, grow corn, and the best places to catch fish.

Folks, when a document is posted, please READ the document before responding. It will save a lot of angst and prevent egg on the face.
 
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By running the Protestants off to a new land to escape persecution, maybe.

The English colonies that combined later to form the United States were not founded by people trying to escape persecution. The first group of colonist did not arrive on the Mayflower.

The first successful colony was founded by a joint stock company out of London for the purpose of making money.

Years later, Puritans would arrive. Puritans began in England, a group of Calvinists who wanted to remove all traces of Catholicism from Anglicanism and replace it with something radically different. Their clergy left England for the more tolerant Netherlands.

Unable to reform their people and influence their government to impose their religion, they got out of England and established a colony where they could live among others that thought just like themselves and not have to be around others who held other beliefs.

What followed in the United States was years of genocide against tribes, institutional slavery and such horrible persecution of Catholics that even when the US was 1/3 Catholic, it was thought unlikely that JFK could be elected.
 
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