Yet another Thanksgiving has come and gone and in its wake, the Black Friday madness swept people into frenzied buying of goods they likely did not need.

What a fitting holiday Thanksgiving is, to only be celebrated by Americans. It is a day of being fat and lazy, overeating to the point of inability to move. Then the following day embarking on a spending spree where folks trample their fellow man in order to get what they want.

The way I see it, we might as well label Thanksgiving as “Gluttony,” and Black Friday “Greed.”

Yes, some families do partake in the “true meaning” behind Thanksgiving — coming together with family and friends to give thanks that you have each other — but many folks across the United States see Turkey Day as an excuse to devour more food than is healthy, and then lay down to nap for hours because they have a tummy ache.

The Thanksgiving holiday could almost be renamed today to accommodate the clear involvement in those two Deadly Sins, and we can add in the rest of the Deadly Sins with just a little insight into the holiday.

“Sloth” is an easy inclusion due to the lack of ability to move from the overeating and laying about watching TV.

“Wrath” and “Envy” are almost too obvious when you examine the crimes people commit against one another during the Black Friday insanity, as they become angry due to someone grabbing the last item they wanted or wishing they were like so-and-so because that person got such-and-such item.

This year alone, a man died after collapsing to the ground at a shopping center in West Virginia, and people simply stepped over and ignored him to continue dashing about to find the best bargains.

Sickening, isn’t it?

“Lust” is generally associated with desires of a sexual nature, but lust encompasses all sorts of physical pleasure; among which it would not be a stretch of the mind to include the want for succulent sensations of devouring mouth-watering pumpkin pies with whipped cream or other such pies accompanying the massive feast of turkey.

That leaves only “Pride.” Pride can stem heavily from losing sight of a goal and becoming wrapped up in personal accomplishment. Find me a family that doesn’t claim Aunt Something-or-another makes the “best” (insert food item), or that isn’t excessively proud when their Thanksgiving spread could be compared to the meals of royalty from days of yore.

Many of the sins can be mixed and matched with some of the other activities and events that encompass many Thanksgiving/Black Friday plans: arguing or even physically fighting with relatives, drinking to excess, pepper-spraying fellow shoppers to keep them from buying something you want, conservative pundits shaking a finger at the president because he chose not to thank God during a speech and other such acts.

Really, all the Deadly Sins overlap when considering the sorry state so many Thanksgiving celebrations entail.

The list of sins can be attributed to any holiday really, so what is to be taken away from all of this is mostly to evoke the idea that maybe next year you should take a step back and consider whether you are taking part in a holiday for “good” reasons, or if you find yourself too often acting a little “bad.”

Christmas is coming, and then those wonderfully whimsical New Year’s resolutions follow. All the selfish or morally reprehensible activities of Thanksgiving resurface soon, so try to make this holiday season into something more than excuses to overdo things, and try to appreciate your family and friends over the food and frivolities you might be surrounded with.