Wednesday, November 25, 2009

My response to President Obama's Thanksgiving email message, November 25, 2009

Mr. President -

I am disappointed in this greeting.

God is not included in this email. That is a mistake. We are a nation that commemorates Thanksgiving first and foremost as thanksgiving to the creator, from whom all things come. Look at the history of the 1st Thanksgiving, or Washington's proclamation, or Lincoln's proclamation, the last to be read tonight in an ecumenical Thanksgiving service in my town.

God is our provider. Without the creator (whether Jew, Christian, or Muslim) as the center, I wonder about the future of that dream that is America.


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