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Is
Thanksgiving A Celebration of The Success of
Capitalism
Here's
something to ponder after this Thanksgiving holiday is over with. Is
Thanksgiving a celebration of the success of
capitalism? This question was asked over the holiday
weekend on a blog that I post on. And I thought that it was such a
great question and something to really be thought
on.
Thanksgiving is a celebration of the fruit of one's
labor that was possible because of God supplying our needs. It is a
celebration of our ability to work and earn our way with that
which God has supplied us with.
If God had not supplied us
with our needs, there would be nothing to harvest; nor would we have
the ability to do that which we do to harvest. We must praise Him
for the bountifulness of the land and for how He made us, for we are
"fearfully and wonderfully made."
So yes, I would say that
Thanksgiving is in a roundabout way a celebration of the success of
capitalism.
Clearly if everyone was taking and no one was
working, there would be no harvest. However, that which is also
clear is that if some people were working and that which they
harvested was redistributed and given to everyone, even to those who
did not work there would be far less for those who worked and far
less to celebrate for.
This is interesting because it made me
think about the farmers in Russia who were stolen from, of all of
their harvest and left to starve. Their harvest was distributed to
the other people in Russia. When the leader was asked why he let the
farmers die. He said something to the meaning of that he had a
problem of either too little food or too many people. He decided
that it was too many people. Russia also killed a lot of the
farmers.
America better get educated. We are seeing the start
of this here, like with health care. People who work to afford good
care in their life will die because they are not allowed to have any
more than those who don't work and because the government will
decide where THEIR money can be spent.
Bottom line, any type
of redistribution enslaves those who are being stolen from. It is
forced servitude that says, "If you want to earn money, you have to
pay money to the care of others." The same goes for forcing us to
pay for others to have that which we want to buy, in order for us to
make purchases. --Redistribution of the wealth is illegal
and unconstitutional, and we had better fight
this.
Special thanks to Jr. for the great question that
really made me think: Click Here
Debra J.M. Smith 11-29-10
www.InformingChristians.com
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