To friends who follow me from USA, Happy Thanksgiving Day

Dear friends and friends,

today, USA celebrate Thanksgiving Day.

Since they are subject, even if posthumously, I wish you happy Thanksgiving Day even to those who follow me from Canada.
In Canada, this anniversary is celebrated on the first Monday of October.
In the US, it is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November.
It dates back to 1521, when a group of English Puritans called  Pilgrims sailed to the New World on board the ship "Mayflower" and landed in what is now the American state of Massachusetts.
Here they founded a colony.
There is this "contradiction"  about Puritans.
They left England for their ideas considered fundamentalist.
Indeed, Puritanism was born from a split in the Anglican Church, after Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) re-established it as a cross between Catholicism and Protestantism in 1559.
Puritans were against the use of bishops and Roman Catholic type vestments in the Anglican Church and they wanted a church of Calvinist inspiration.
They were sticklers.
I remember, when there was the period of Oliver Cromwell (1649-1658) England was under a real Puritan dictatorship and many traditionalist Anglicans and Roman Catholics were persecuted.
In current US, however, the Puritans founded the current American society, a society with freedom of worship.
This is a paradox.
In US there is a paradox of a secular country but with a very religious people putting religion in the political confrontation.
This is what you can call "positive secularism", a secularism that does not exclude religion from public life, which instead becomes here Europe.
I remember that atheism was born right here in Europe.
Sincerely.