Guy Fawkes Day

[cih1355]

Does anyone here in America celebrate Guy Fawkes Day? I'm asking out of curiosity. I haven't heard of anyone celebrating that holiday here in America.

 

[JBaldwin]

We have had on occasion a Guy Fawkes celebration for our British friends who work with my husband. We have never taken the day seriously, but it's a good excuse for late fall cookout and bonfire.

 

[Philip]

Last year, some friends and I watched V for Vendetta (blech!). Other than that, not really.

 

[Confessor]

I'm pretty sure that the rate of Guy Fawkes Day observance increased substantially with the release of V for Vendetta.

 

[matt01]

It is the celebration of a foiled explosive plot against the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Families gather to celebrate the defeat of Guy Fawkes and his other conspirators with fireworks and bonfires.

I don't see any harm in celebrating it, but have no interest in it. We have enough pointless holidays as it is.

 

[Philip]

From the not very authoritative but memorable, 1066 and All That

The Gunpowder Plot arose in the following way: the King had recently invented a table called Avoiduroi, which said:

1 New Presbyter=1 Old Priest
0 Bishop=0 King

James was always repeating 'No Bishop, No King', to himself, and one day a certain loyal citizen called Sir Guyfawkes, a very active and conscientious man, overheard him, and thought it was the new slogan of James's new policy. So he decided to carry it out at once and made a very loyal plan to blow up the King and the bishops and everybody else in Parliament assembled, with gunpowder. Although the plan failed, attempts are made every year on St. Guyfawkes' Day to remind the Parliament that it would have been a Good Thing.

 

[Jen]

From the not very authoritative but memorable, 1066 and All That

The Gunpowder Plot arose in the following way: the King had recently invented a table called Avoiduroi, which said:

1 New Presbyter=1 Old Priest
0 Bishop=0 King

James was always repeating 'No Bishop, No King', to himself, and one day a certain loyal citizen called Sir Guyfawkes, a very active and conscientious man, overheard him, and thought it was the new slogan of James's new policy. So he decided to carry it out at once and made a very loyal plan to blow up the King and the bishops and everybody else in Parliament assembled, with gunpowder. Although the plan failed, attempts are made every year on St. Guyfawkes' Day to remind the Parliament that it would have been a Good Thing.

You, sir, win for quoting 1066 and All That.

 

[JennyG]

It is the celebration of a foiled explosive plot against the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Families gather to celebrate the defeat of Guy Fawkes and his other conspirators with fireworks and bonfires.

I don't see any harm in celebrating it, but have no interest in it. We have enough pointless holidays as it is.

Pointless? Are you kidding???
It's understandable if Americans know nothing about it of course - but it was ONLY the saving of Britain from being taken over by Rome again. That could have happened. The foiling of the Gunpowder Plot was as great a Divine mercy as either the defeat of the Armada, or Trafalgar, or Dunkirk.

Now Israel may say, and that truly,
If that the Lord had not our cause maintained........

 

[matt01]

Pointless? Are you kidding???
It's understandable if Americans know nothing about it of course...

You said it. We don't even remember the reasoning behind our own holidays/celebrations.

 

[JennyG]

I'm afraid that's true, but it's great cause for concern.
Ignorance of our own history lays America and Britain wide open to every deception not only of demagogues but of Satan himself