Goodbye – the point is that Thanksgiving is not a church holiday. It is a secular holiday to give thanks for the freedoms and bounties that you as an American have.
In Canada, we celebrate Thanksgiving much earlier – the second Monday in October. As that was several weeks ago, I will volunteer to consume a vast quantity of pumpkin pie with a lot of whipping cream – the real stuff, in order to show respect for the holiday of my American neighbors. (I also just used the American spelling of the word which should be spelled “neighbour” in Canada and any other “British” affiliated country). To those of you that will be indulging in a Thanksgiving meal – b’tayavon.