Many American Christians treat American Thanksgiving as an inherently religious holiday. Aside from a desire to turn everything into an expression of their religion, the main reason for this seems to be the assumption the entire point of the holiday is to give thanks to their god - not any other gods, just theirs, thus making it a Christian holiday. If that's true, then it makes no sense for non-Christians, or at least non-theists, to celebrate Thanksgiving.
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