The United States gives thanks to God
Last updated 11/27/2008 at Noon
Thanksgiving is a religious holiday, as annual presidential proclamations attest (www.pilgrimhall.org/thanxproc.htm).
From the Continental Congress of 1782:
“…It being the indispensable duty of all Nations, not only to offer up their supplications to Almighty God, the giver of all good, for his gracious assistance in a time of distress, but also in a solemn and public manner to give him praise for his goodness in general…do hereby recommend to the inhabitants of these States in general, to observe… Thursday the twenty-eighth day of November next, as a day of solemn Thanksgiving to...
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