Guests at the Thanksgiving Table

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

A few verses to consider this Thanksgiving:


M't:21:31: Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
M't:21:32: For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.

Lu:7:39: Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.

Lu:5:29: And Levi (a tax-collector) made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.
Lu:5:30: But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
Lu:5:31: And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.
Lu:5:32: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

I mention these as this is the kindness of Jesus, Who is the Light of the World, yet when I invite 8 whores and a team of investigators from the IRS to Thanksgiving, I do not seem to be accorded anything like that title.

Sometimes I despair of my family.

[handmaiden]

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To be fair, Brother Bathfire, did you give them enough advance notice to make adequate preparations? Some whores are a little on the heavy side, (They call it being "thicc".), and your average folding chair may not accommodate them.

[Johny Joe Hold]

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Pastor Bathfire, even though the Bible talks of feasting with publicans and harlots, and, even though you are Pastor of Diversity and Tolerance, I think you can be practical in reading this scripture. You would have diversity if sinners who had repented sat at your table with those from LBC who had not sinned.

And for publicans, I think that would be handled by inviting those, at least one, who hires and supervises tax collectors. An example would be your Mayor.

[Johny Joe Hold]

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Thanksgiving is a tense time for many families. As adults go on with their lives, they go in different directions. The host of the family Thanksgiving Dinner despairs over the disagreements that come with the annual event.

Allow me to pass along a bit of advice--hopefully it will help make a diverse family get along better: Don't invite the liberal members of the family. They simply are unpleasant and unAmerican. When the gathering is made up of Trump supporting Godly relatives, a good time will be had by all.

[James Hutchins]

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At this sacred time of year, it is very important to remember whose table WE are guests at. Gods table.
If not for God we would not exist. If not for God, we'd not be able to breed and kill turkeys to eat. On a whim, God could kill us just to watch us die. Be thankful He has not killed you. Yet.

[handmaiden]

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Well, I'll certainly be boycotting my family's Thanksgiving festivities.

Sure, they voted for Trump and my brother thinks that Hillary Clinton has people murdered on a regular basis. (He very wisely only discusses this notion when seated at his kitchen table. And he knows enough to whisper.)

And yes, my sister-in-law throws around the N-word and knows darn well that the only reason the police didn't interfere after that drug addict damaged her car is that she (the drug addict) was Black and police are always letting Black people get away with stuff.

But, there are few stress points in our relationship. The biggest one lately is that my niece adopted a mixed race child and I'm afraid that my sister-in-law, (who dotes on her new grandchild), might start using the N-word less frequently.

Also, even though my brother watches Fox News regularly and is quick to point out, (very loudly, I might add), that "Christianity is under attack in this country", the only time that I ever hear him mention the name of Christ is when he has trouble with his keys in the door or instances like that. Unfortunately, his tone of voice in those moments doesn't sound reverent or beseeching.

The worst problem is that they are both Catholic and divorced (from their first partners) and there is the whole living-in-sin thing. (My sister-in-law is actually my sister-in-common-law).

But other than the Mary-worshipping and ongoing fornication and taking God's Name in vain and newfound tolerance for race-mixing, they are great Republicans. They are quick to criticize government handouts when they collect their Social Security checks and make use of their Medicare and they worry about Muslims beheading them.

I don't know, maybe I would enjoy Thanksgiving with them after all. . . What do you think?

[Dennis Lukes]

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I don't know, maybe I would enjoy Thanksgiving with them after all. . . What do you think?

They sound like cuckservatives to me. You're either all in or you're out (Matthew 12:30). Hail victory! I can see why you'd be uncomfortable having a mixed-race child there. Its existence isn't the result of a family member's sin, given that it's adopted (Deuteronomy 7:3), but still nobody wants to see that. There's an interesting line of thought about this from a good Christian man, Dog the Bounty Hunter:

I don’t care if she’s a Mexican, a whore or whatever. It’s not because she’s black, it’s because we use the word “n*gger” sometimes here. I’m not gonna take a chance ever in life of losing everything I’ve worked for for 30 years because some f*cking n*gger heard us say "n*gger" and turned us in to the Enquirer magazine.

You simply need to tell your relatives that you have no issue with coloreds, only that having them around in an otherwise all-white space makes people uncomfortable using the N-word in casual conversation (as is our right as an American citizen - see First Amendment). Therefore, black people need to be permanently banned from all family gatherings. See, nothing racist about it.

[Johny Joe Hold]

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Well, I'll certainly be boycotting my family's Thanksgiving festivities.

I don't know, maybe I would enjoy Thanksgiving with them after all. . . What do you think?

Adopted a mixed race child? Stay home on Thanksgiving.

[Didymus Much]

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Despite our differences, you should all know that every last one of the True Christians™ is welcome at my Thanksgiving dinner table.

Which happened last month because I'm Canadian. You snooze, you lose, no tourtière for you.

[Dennis Lukes]

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Despite our differences, you should all know that every last one of the True Christians™ is welcome at my Thanksgiving dinner table.

Which happened last month because I'm Canadian. You snooze, you lose, no tourtière for you.

You and your countrymen celebrate Thanksgiving on the wrong day. When the Lukes clan arrives at your doorstep on Nov. 24, you'll have a turkey in the oven and pumpkin pies cooling on the window sill, or there'll be Hell to pay I assure you. We're bringing Rutherford too, I pray he won't have to endure any of your Darwinist racism?

[Didymus Much]

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... When the Lukes clan arrives at your doorstep on Nov. 24...

Awesome, we have plenty of cots in the basement, and I assure you I'll feed them quite well.


I only hope that you can join us in person someday, maybe next year? Any word on when the FBI will be letting you have your passport back?

[Dennis Lukes]

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Awesome, we have plenty of cots in the basement, and I assure you I'll feed them quite well.

What kind of creep has a bunch of cots in their basement?

[Johny Joe Hold]

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Dear Abby had a letter today that made me think of the things that can go wrong at the family Thanksgiving Dinner.

The letter was from a man in his 30's who believes he is both male and female. The woman he wants to marry also believes she is of both genders. Both of them like to tell their families about all this maybe stuff but the relatives don't like it.

This is the kind of person to keep out of your house when planning a big family get together. Why have someone present who wants to defy God's creation of male and female? It should not be necessary to condemn sinners and recite scriptures on our "days off."

Dear Abby: How can I explain to my mom that my girlfriend and I don’t identify as straight? - mlive.com

[Dennis Lukes]

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Now that's just crazy Mayor Hold. So, there's a man dating a woman, but somehow they're gay and the targets of homophobic bigotry? Liberals are just so desperate to be victims they'll "identify" as anything to escape the dreadful reality that they're average.

[MitzaLizalor]

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I have a question about foreigners. Should they be welcomed at the Thanksgiving Table? Many of them will be from places that don't have thanksgivings on any date. Generally, that's hardly surprising given the conditions you find when alighting there but some of them are well managed, clean and tidy with actual sewerage systems. They think that's because they all work together for the common good, apart from the sewers they'd cite electricity, roads, high-speed rail, self-sufficiency in food, universal health care and such like. In those cases they've mostly rejected any ideas about God: “God?” they say. Then put on some of the most dreadful music you've ever heard and do traditional dancing. Yuk.

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