i smell instant communion!

so, you'd certainly need a roll..and some gravy.

But as to the role of the rolls, they were a sidelight to the turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes.

And, yes, to my mind, God has a ROLE in Thanksgiving, however you may conceive of God. I'm not sure God really likes rolls, though...

Toasted with a shmeer and lox.

but I'm guessing He doesn't care much for those boring crescent rolls.

How many deaths have been caused by religion? Here's a list of religiously motivated wars and genocides and their death tolls. Let me know if I missed any!

The Crusades: 6,000,000
Thirty Years War: 11,500,000
French Wars of Religion: 4,000,000
Second Sudanese Civil War: 2,000,000
Lebanese Civil War: 250,000
Muslim Conquests of India: 80,000,000
Congolese Genocide (King Leopold II): 13,000,000
Armenian Genocide: 1,500,000
Rwandan Genocide: 800,000
Eighty Years' War: 1,000,000
Nigerian Civil War: 1,000,000
Great Peasants' Revolt: 250,000
First Sudanese Civil War: 1,000,000
Jewish Diaspora (Not Including the Holocaust): 1,000,000
The Holocaust (Jewish and Homosexual Deaths): 6,500,000
Islamic Terrorism Since 2000: 150,000
Iraq War: 500,000
US Western Expansion (Justified by "Manifest Destiny&quot :20,000,000
Atlantic Slave Trade (Justified by Christianity): 14,000,000
Aztec Human Sacrifice: 80,000
AIDS deaths in Africa largely due to opposition to condoms: 30,000,000
Spanish Inquisition: 5,000
TOTAL: 195,035,000 deaths in the name of religion.

into a well sealed, enclosed area with sticks, stones and knives to duke it out. Sorta like “Escape from New York”.

I bet the CO2 levels would actually start to decrease...lol.

I think your off a bit on the Crusades and Armenian Genocide. Plus the Jewish holocaust by the Nazi's was less about religion and more about state sanctioned racism and hatred. The Jewish people in Germany could have been pro-Nazi, and would have still suffered the same fate..just because. Much like certain elements in the GOP will never consider people of color, even if they vote their way...citizens.

Pretty sure God is celiac.

Who am I to deny someone a roll?

The thing is these idiots think they're superior to me on the basis of race.

Now an atheist.

God gets no rolls. God gets no place in my life.

Lots and lots of stuffing. And, three slices of pie with a mountain of whipped cream. He's God, and he doesn't have to worry about all of that going to hips.

so God is involved in the bakery business, and probably could provide rolls

Or even like Chaucer.

We don't talk like Shakespeare or Chaucer simply because generation after generation people can't be bothered to learn "correct" grammar and spelling. Most people today don't even know the difference between "thee", "thy", "thine", and "thou", or how to correctly spell "felaweshipe" (They spell it "fellowship" these days, the ignorant fools).

Fact: If previous generations had "followed the rules" English would still be properly spelled this way:

At nyght was come into that hostelrye
Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye,
Of sondry folk, by aventure yfalle
In felaweshipe, and pilgrimes were they alle,
That toward caunterbury wolden ryde.

Chaucer actually used they as a singular pronoun, so that's cool, anyway.

Any changes from this point on are simply errors that must be corrected.

(And Brits, of course, will need intensive re-education in proper English.)
(And in Oz they don't really speak it at all any more.)

Sessions cements his place in hell.

Which would seem very progressive for that time. Except, maybe the dinner was an excuse to try and convert the Indians to christianity?

Omnipotent. Immortal. But still, he never learns.

Guess I know where I am headed...

Burning the rolls is an original sin.

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And they weren't referring to bears!

Thank the Lord and pass the butter!

Which begs the question, when does God celebrate his Thanksgiving, and what exactly is he celebrating? Also, does he serve turkey, duck, ham or is he vegan and only eats tofurkey?

I see one heck of a rebuttal letter in your future... Have fun!!

He doesn't allow them anymore.

turned out, when they were allowed, people used them to complain about the county/city/local admins. and pointed to Things That Need Improving.

editor decided to replace the letters with his own "thumbs Up" and "thumbs down" segment.
the hilarity ensued at how much of a stretch he made to find things for each category, once a week.
( I really believe he drinks..it's the only explanation for some of the things I have read)

Judging by your sampling of their skills, I'd not allow any rebuttals either if I were them.

Maybe start a local FB account where you can counter their lunacy and tag them? There has to be a way to force them into being accountable publicly for their words.

I sneak in some stuff occasionally,

Along with “tow” the line, “there” instead of their, web “sights”, “ here here!” instead of hear hear...and it goes on and on.

Even in news stories, using "reign in" a person, for example, instead of "rein in".

Surprisingly, "rain" is still being used as it should.
For now.

I’ve seen that too.

And I just saw “horde” used instead of “hoard”

for Thanksgiving.

1637 - Following the burning of the Pequots by the Puritans Cotton Mather
expressed gratefulness to the Lord that they had "sent 600 heathen souls to hell."

Ben Franklin observed that rum should be regarded as the agent of Providence
"to extripate these savages in order to make room for the cultivators of the earth."
Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri: "the whites should supplant the indian
because Whites use the land according to the intentions of the Creator."

Contact population estimate for USA is 12 to 25 million.
1850 Native American population was 250,000.

No....

since I consume so little of it. I've seen atrocious spelling errors in online media, even news sources like CBS that have the budget to hire competent people to check things over. I used to get riled over the grammatical errors, but they're so commonplace that I just ignore them, because there are so many severe spelling errors.

At least a spell check program would have let that headline fly, the errors I've seen lately would not survive any sort of error-checking software.

I don't believe in letting anyone go hungry, even if they will let people go hungry.