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<p>Father’s day is celebrated on different days throughout the world.<br></br>Origin in the U.S.:<br></br>On June 19, 1910, a Father's Day celebration was held at the YMCA in Spokane,<br></br>Washington by Sonora Smart Dodd. Her father, the civil war veteran William<br></br>Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there. She was also<br></br>a member of Old Centenary Presbyterian Church (now Knox Presbyterian<br></br>Church), where she first proposed the idea. After hearing a…</p>
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<p>Father’s day is celebrated on different days throughout the world.<br/>Origin in the U.S.:<br/>On June 19, 1910, a Father's Day celebration was held at the YMCA in Spokane,<br/>Washington by Sonora Smart Dodd. Her father, the civil war veteran William<br/>Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there. She was also<br/>a member of Old Centenary Presbyterian Church (now Knox Presbyterian<br/>Church), where she first proposed the idea. After hearing a sermon about Jarvis'<br/>Mother's Day in 1909 at Central Methodist Episcopal Church, she told<br/>her pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday to honor them. Although she<br/>initially suggested June 5, her father's birthday, the pastors did not have enough<br/>time to prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third<br/>Sunday in June. ***How convenient, I might add.*** Several local clergymen<br/>accepted the idea, and on June 19, 1910, the first Father's Day, "sermons<br/>honoring fathers were presented throughout the city".<br/>In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation<br/>honoring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father's Day. Six years<br/>later, the day was made a permanent national holiday when President Richard<br/>Nixon signed it into law in 1972.<br/>In addition to Father's Day, International Men's Day is celebrated in many<br/>countries on November 19 in honor of men and boys who are not fathers. **This<br/>is being politically correct so as not to hurt anyone.**<br/>Notice this celebration began in the church. Why is that?<br/>Exodus 20:12 – Honor thy father and they mother: that thy days may be long<br/>upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.<br/>But let’s not forget that the world celebrates this day too.</p>
<p>Germany<br/>In Germany, Father's Day (Vatertag) is celebrated differently from other parts of<br/>the world. It is always celebrated on Ascension Day (the Thursday forty days after<br/>Easter), which is a federal holiday. Regionally, it is also called men's<br/>day, Männertag, or gentlemen's day, Herrentag. It is tradition for groups of males<br/>(young and old but usually excluding pre-teenage boys) to do a hiking tour with<br/>one or more smaller wagons, Bollerwagen, pulled by manpower. In the wagons<br/>are wine or beer (according to region) and traditional regional<br/>food, Hausmannskost. Many men use this holiday as an opportunity to<br/>get drunk. According to the Federal Statistical Office of Germany, alcohol-related<br/>traffic accidents multiply by three on this day. The tradition of getting drunk is<br/>especially prevalent in Eastern Germany.<br/>These traditions are probably rooted in Christian Ascension Day's processions to<br/>the farmlands, which has been celebrated since the 18th century. Men<br/>would be seated in a wooden cart and carried to the village's plaza, and the<br/>mayor would award a prize to the father who had the most children, usually a big<br/>piece of ham. In the late 19th century the religious component was progressively<br/>lost, especially in urban areas such as Berlin, and groups of men organized walking</p>
<p>excursions with beer and ham. By the 20th century, alcohol consumption had<br/>become a major part of the tradition. Many people will take the following Friday<br/>off at work, and some schools are closed on that Friday as well; many people then<br/>use the resulting four-day-long weekend for a short vacation.<br/>It is pagan.<br/>Pagan 1.<br/>a person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions.<br/>synonyms: heathen, infidel, idolater, idolatress;<br/>archaic paynim (a non- Christian) "pagans worshiped the sun"</p>
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<p>During earlier times, Father’s Day was known by the name of Great Sky-Father’s<br/>Day. Celebrating Father’s Day gives honor to the pagan sky god Caelus (Jupiter,<br/>Zeus, Uranus) and the summer solstice. Part of the week of celebrations leading<br/>up to the summer solstice, the day was give over to celebrating the provision of<br/>the Sky-Father for his human children with his rich gifts of sun and rain. Gifts of<br/>sacrificial goats and sheep (recognizable by the festive ribbons bound about their<br/>necks) were supplemented with prayers for his continued guidance in the human<br/>journey towards spiritual adulthood.<br/>During Roman and Grecian times, animals ready to be sacrificed were recognized<br/>by the ties of ribbon that were placed around their necks on this day.</p>
<p><br/>During Roman and Grecian times, animals ready to be sacrificed were recognized<br/>by the ties of ribbon that were placed around their necks on this day.</p>
<p>Who is profiting? Look at their logo. There is a golden circle under the crown,<br/>representing the sun and yellows and golds represent the sun also. The red<br/>ribbon is like the snake who is also worshiped as the sun god baal.</p>
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