This is how the ELCA celebrated Thanksgiving

11/30/2022

Days after multiple ELCA Facebook posts about "Trans Day of Remembrance" the denomination is at it again, this time demonizing Thanksgiving as they observe something called "National Day of Mourning" instead.

One of the ELCA's post about the so-called "National Day of Mourning" said:

"Today, as family and friends gather across the nation, it is important for us to remember that for many people this is a day of mourning. As you give thanks for the blessings in your life, take some time to better understand the truths about this holiday and the Wampanoag people, learn about the Indigenous people on whose land you are gathered, and practice a land acknowledgement."

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Didaskalos link

11/30/2022 03:19:22 pm

When your denomination's "God" and "Jesus" and "Bible" are world-approved fictions, of course you're going to parrot the zeitgeist's trendy disdain for Thanksgiving.

'The Anti-Thanksgiving Activism Dividing America Is Rooted In Ungratefulness'
-- https://thefederalist.com/2022/11/21/the-anti-thanksgiving-activism-dividing-america-is-rooted-in-ungratefulness/

". . .An entire generation of Americans has been catechized in anti-racist political activism, their consciences malformed to constantly scrutinize every aspect of our culture for signs, however tenuous, of bigotry, colonialism, patriarchy, or white supremacy. Thanksgiving, young activists assess, seems guilty of all of the above, and thus must be defamed, dismantled, and replaced, much as innumerable other symbols of national unity have already been toppled. . . .

"[Ours] is a culture so defined by privilege and narcissism that it is incapable of gratitude to the very people (and God) who have given them such tremendous opportunities and comforts. It is a culture that is capable only of tearing down, because it is premised on the hatred of its patrimony — indeed, it finds the very idea of God as a beneficent father to be offensive.

"By its very nature, Thanksgiving is a conservative holiday, because it seeks to conserve a certain understanding of ourselves based on the idea that our nation, whatever its flaws, is something to celebrate and honor. Millions of men and women over many centuries made sacrifices we can only inchoately appreciate so that we can repose in heated homes, fill our bellies, and share our rich bounty with family and neighbors. It is, in a word, a unifying day. Don’t let the activist outrage divide us from one another, or, ultimately, from our heavenly Father."

Chuck Braun

12/1/2022 04:53:43 pm

The arrival of the Pilgrims and other Christians brought the Gospel of the Native peoples' Savior, without Whom they would be lost eternally. While some nominally "Christians" did desire to wipe out the natives, one of my church's pastors from a century ago went to evangelize the Chippewa for the Lutheran Church- Missouri Synod. And God even used the egregious practice of slavery to bring the Gospel to African people. Some African missionaries now come to evangelize this country.

As far as I am concerned, the ELCA has departed from Christianity. Pray for the remnant believers who still remain out of innocent ignorance.

A reader

12/2/2022 08:29:13 am

So when is the ELCA willing to give back their headquarters building location to the tribes that occupied the Chicago area long before the city existed? It is much easier to point fingers and be really self righteous when not talking about MY Backyard!

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