Biden, First Lady Join Troops for 'Friendsgiving' Meal to Thank Them for Their Service
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[color=var(--secondary-font-color)]By [color=var(--secondary-font-color)]Savannah Rychcik[/color] November 23, 2021 at 9:20am[/font][/size][/color]


“Biden and his wife attended a “Friendsgiving” meal with military troops, thanking them for their service. 
Biden delivered remarks at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and proceeded to serve the troops food along with his wife.
“I want to thank not only you warriors, I want to thank your families because they stand and wait. And I know how hard it is to have someone who is not at the table on a holiday that are in harms’ way that find themselves out of the country,” Biden said.”


Good devout Catholic...not.  Atheist secular holiday taking over giving thanks to God.

Possibly an attempt to have a communal feasting holiday without bringing concepts of giving thanks to God into it?

I think Friendsgiving is pretty lame, but I personally dislike Thanksgiving, and not just for personal reasons (like not enjoying the food) but also for more principled ones. It's a holiday with no connection to the Catholic Faith, and to me it seems to draw attention away from the much more important holiday of Christmas. I do not consider it a sin to celebrate Thanksgiving, but I see it as a fake holiday imposed on us Catholics by WASP America, as something foreign that did not come from "our people", if you will. Perhaps us Catholics would be better off elevating the status of Columbus Day in our communities as a "replacement holiday" for Thanksgiving, as Columbus Day commemorates the great achievement of a saintly Catholic man, while Thanksgiving draws inspiration from the Puritans (who hated our Faith so much they left England because the Anglican Church was "too Catholic" for them). Why not use this day instead to give thanks to God in a special way, as it is connected to the day that Columbus and his men had their first sighting of land in the New World, which was the cause for a great amount of thanksgiving among them? Something else of note is that the distance between Columbus Day and Christmas makes it so that you cannot lump them into the same "holiday" season the way it is done for Thanksgiving and Christmas. 

For those with children or uninformed family members, Thanksgiving provides a good "teachable moment" to demonstrate that there were Catholic settlers in North America well before Plymouth Rock.  That's how I approach it in my family.

Friendsgiving just another idea to destroy the family ---making friends more important than family.  

Why not include friends on Thanksgiving Day instead of making a separate day/holiday?

Friendsgiving just another idea to destroy the family ---making friends more important than family. 

Or....some people arent close to their families due to divorce, death, politics, addictions, moving to a new state, or simply family drama. Most families were destroyed decades ago.  


“Friendsgiving” is also simply a way to enlarge your family because young adults these days only have 1 sibling (or none), 1-2 aunts, 1-2 cousins, etc (and that’s if you include BOTH sides of the family).  In other words, their families are very very tiny.

Be thankful for what you have; many have much less. 
 

I positively hated Thanksgiving Day meals in the army mess halls during my time in the army.  Too many officers and senior enlisted would come with their families and slow down the line and fill up the dining area showing the rest of us lowly enlisted scuм that they "cared".  After a couple of years, I frequently took someone's duty and ate something out of the microwave.