Retailers pine for the elimination of Thanksgiving

Walmart, not to be outdone by Target, has said it will screw its employee’s families open up at 10:00 on Thanksgiving.  I know, as a Catholic, Thanksgiving is an overblown relic of our puritanical past, where anal retentive puritans who alone brought intolerance and religious persecution to the world, came to push aside the Catholic elements of our heritage. 

Meanwhile, for most post-moderns, American Indians are able to have carte blanche when it comes to portraying their ancestors as the pure, sinless, perfect bearers of love and peace, and the pilgrims as racist, imperialist, Nazi genocidal murderers.  That the pilgrims actually established a peace treaty that lasted almost 50 years (not a bad record for a peace treaty), and should be used as an example of what could have, or should have, happened between the Indians and settlers is ignored.  Nope.  They were white, European, Christians and that’s as guilty as it gets. 

So we have a day that many some Catholics appear to sneer at, and post-moderns, secularists, and American Indians condemn as the beginning of the ‘American Holocaust’.  So why still have the day?  I don’t know.  I like it, so I’m glad it’s around.  And while I like to point folks to the Catholic presence in our country’s past, I don’t mind including the bravery, courage, and devotion to God that exemplified what the Pilgrims were all about. 

But like everything else in our country now, it’s not sex rights, abortion rights, or equality.  It’s money.  Money, plain and simple, that drives us.  And Walmart, Target, and any other consumerist juggernaut doesn’t give one rip about families, traditions, meaning, nothing.  They serve one god, and I’ll let you guess which one it is.  Those who take advantage of it for cheap prices?  Welcome to the society you are building.