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Walmart, not to be outdone by Target, has said it will screw its employee\u2019s families<\/strike> open up at 10:00 on Thanksgiving<\/a>.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 They were white, European, Christians and that\u2019s as guilty as it gets.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

So we have a day that many<\/strike> some Catholics appear to sneer at, and post-moderns, secularists, and American Indians condemn as the beginning of the \u2018American Holocaust\u2019.\u00a0 So why still have the day?\u00a0 I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 I like it, so I\u2019m glad it\u2019s around.\u00a0 And while I like to point folks to the Catholic presence in our country\u2019s past, I don\u2019t mind including the bravery, courage, and devotion to God that exemplified what the Pilgrims were all about.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

But like everything else in our country now, it\u2019s not sex rights, abortion rights, or equality.\u00a0 It\u2019s money.\u00a0 Money, plain and simple, that drives us.\u00a0 And Walmart, Target, and any other consumerist juggernaut doesn\u2019t give one rip about families, traditions, meaning, nothing.\u00a0 They serve one god, and I\u2019ll let you guess which one it is.\u00a0 Those who take advantage of it for cheap prices?\u00a0 Welcome to the society you are building.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"