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   From: hlwdPastor@NOSPAMgmale.com   
      
   We must all remember the origins of the Thanksgiving holiday and how the First   
   Americans gave everything they had in order to make it a special day for the   
   rest of us. The Indians at the time said it best when they customarily   
   referred to the Pilgrims as    
   "proud, pure, and righteous", for that indeed they were.   
      
   It might have been because those Pilgrims introduced the Indians to Jesus   
   Christ. Before the arrival of those First Americans in 1620, the Indians were   
   primitive savages in war bonnets, worshipping Earth Gods and practicing   
   cannibalism. But after their    
   encounters with the First Americans, they had the opportunity of accepting   
   Jesus Christ as their Personal Savior!   
      
   Or it might have been because the Pilgrims came here in search of religious   
   freedom and so they founded a country based on such freedom that we today know   
   as the United States of America.   
      
   Whatever the reason, its now well documented that the First Americans took   
   pity on the ignorant savages, who were hiding behind trees with their   
   tomahawks, stalking the innocent Europeans, for those righteous Christian   
   Americans knew the Words of Jesus    
   and they are the Words of love and forgiveness.   
      
   The Thanksgiving holiday, then, is a perfect example Christian love, as it   
   took place in celebration of the Indians salvation, not just from the fires of   
   Hell, but from physical starvation and exposure to the elements. The Pilgrims   
   gave food to the    
   Indians and showed them how to grow corn, which the Pilgrims called maize.   
   When warm weather came, the colonists taught the Indians how to plant, fish,   
   hunt, and prepare themselves for the next winter. So after the Indians   
   harvested their first crop,    
   they and their Pilgrim friends celebrated the first Thanksgiving.   
      
   Ever since that Blessed Day of the First Thanksgiving, the Indians and   
   Americans have lived in peace (except during those times that the Indians   
   chose to torture and murder innocent Americans, but we wont go there now.  Its   
   time to forgive, forget,    
   celebrate Thanksgiving and honor the First Americans).   
      
   So lets take some extra time out tomorrow to utter a special prayer of thanks   
   to God for those First Americans, the Pilgrims, who in 1620, gave us this   
   special holiday to remind us of how much we have to be thankful for.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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