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| by Erik Wait |
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11/21/2006
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
In a few days most of you will probably be sitting around the table with your children eating Thanksgiving Dinner. The purpose of this letter is to tell you why your children should not be allowed to partake of the meal.
(1) The purpose of the meal is to commemorate the meal our forefathers who, when they came to North America, were thanking the Lord for His provision through a harsh winter. Since your children do not have the cognitive ability to fully understand the significance of this meal it will be meaningless to them. Therefore they should not partake of this meal.
(2) Many adults eat too much and get drunk at Thanksgiving dinner and suffer the consequences of their actions. Therefore, in order to protect your children from suffering the same consequences they should be protected by keeping them from the table until they can rightly discern the historical meaning of the meal.
(3) Many families are often divided and treat each other wrongly during such gatherings and suffer the consequences of their actions. Therefore, in order to protect your children from the actions of adults they should not partake of this meal.
(4) There is no concrete historical evidence that there were any children at the Thanksgiving dinner of the Pilgrims. Therefore, the children ought not to partake of the meal.
(5) Children cannot eat Turkey or other solid food. Therefore, even if there were children at the Pilgrim’s table they could not have partaken of the first Thanksgiving Dinner. Consequently, children should not be allowed to partake of the commemorative Thanksgiving dinners either.
I hope you will join with me in seeking to keep covenant children away from the Thanksgiving (Greek: “eucharist”) meal. Instead we should eat in front of them and make sure that they though they may go hungry, at least they are being protected from the sin of adults.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Erik Wait |
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