Posted on 11/23/2016 12:47:50 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski
The 400 year history of Thanksgiving as a holiday of thankfulness for God’s mercy to our founding forefathers and Natives has been replaced with a new motif on our omniscient college campuses: Thanksgiving is Racist! This new postmodern narrative says that Thanksgiving represents racism, crimes against Native Americans, exploitation, evil colonization, theft of native lands, and genocide (with no examples of course). Adherents even maintain that there is no evidence that the Thanksgiving story actually occurred (despite libraries of evidence written by men and women who were there). Yes, this all knowing generation has taken the mantle from their omniscient college professors. You know, the professors who are so wise and learned that their foolishness would get them booted from any reputable place of employment?
My heart goes out to these poor deceived masses. Postmodernism has taught them that truth is in the eye of the beholder. History is "his" (the man's) story! This generation has learned that there is nothing above them, and as little gods, everything must be interpreted through their subjective lens. As a result, their disbelief in objective truth (except liberal progressive truth) has left them completely unprepared to stand against indoctrination by liberal atheist progressives! They have swallowed hook, line, and sinker the new revisionist understanding of the United States of America, making it impossible for them to know and believe actual historical truth. I shed tears at the thought that they cannot enjoy America's Christian Holidays because of the heavy weight of "white guilt" that they now bear.
Celebrated literary historian Nathaniel Philbrick's book Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, describes the historical first Thanksgiving harvest festival between the Puritan pilgrims and the Wampanoag tribe. The two groups relied heavily on one another for mutual protection in the early years of the Plymouth colony. The Pilgrim's declaration of a new Thanksgiving spiritual harvest was a joint holiday with the natives to coincide closely with the ancient Jewish Biblical holiday of Sukkot. Sukkot is the "The Feast of Booths", first mentioned in Exodus 34:22 as a feast of ingathering at year's end, and a foreshadow of the celebration all believers will have when Jesus Christ returns to earth sets up His kingdom with man.
The history that older generations of Americans learned in grade school about Squanto teaching the Pilgrims to cultivate corn, squash, and beans and the Indians sitting down with the Pilgrims for the first Thanksgiving celebration is factually and historically correct! Far from being racist, this historical story of Thanksgiving has nothing to do with race. Rather, it is an acknowledgment that there is only one race, the human race, and that the God of the human race is a God of love, mercy, self-sacrifice, and redemption. Thanksgiving shows that the sovereign, loving God sent Christ fearing men and women to the shores of America to bring the light which is the light of all men. Those same men and women came to the aid of the Wampanoag people who were under genocidal threat from other savage tribes. The Thanksgiving Story shows how God works in the lives of believers, and unbelievers, by his sending Tisquanto ahead of the pilgrims to the Wampanoag in order to facilitate their settlement. Hearing about the pilgrims through Wampanoag tribal chief Massasoit, Tisquanto walked up to the Plymouth colony one day and started communicating in English with the Pilgrims. Utterly amazed by his language skills and his story, the pilgrims paid Tisquanto to serve as an interpreter and peacemaker between the Wampanoag and the Pilgrims. Subsequently they were able to fostere a 50 year peaceful alliance between them until the contentious tribes of the Massachusetts region became embroiled in war. Hostilities begun when intemperate Indian war chief Metacom (son of Massasoit) slaughtered several Indians after they converted to Christianity and lived among the Pilgrims.
Yes, there were injustices, and those injustices were on both sides, for the heart of man is the epicenter of evil in the world. However, in the Thanksgiving Story, the genocidal norms of unregenerate man was quenched by the Spirit of God that came with the Pilgrims. Is colonizing new lands racist? By no means! The tribal movement of peoples has been the norm since creation. Were the pilgrims racist for being white, or surviving? Of course not! Why would they seek to help and bring the light of the Gospel to the natives if they were of some other race. Should we stop telling the story of how the Puritans brought an end to the genocidal norm of brutal tribal America as the Christian culture spread through the land? Or never teach that it was the pilgrims who set up schools (now called the Ivy League) to send missionaries out to help the natives who, by the way, had not even developed the wheel yet?
No, the story of Thanksgiving is not a story of exploitation, but rather an equal-opportunity story of God's love and outreach to two groups, Native Americans and White Settlers. The Bible clearly states, God is no respecter of persons, and he judges the content of men's hearts rather than the color of their skin. The true historical Thanksgiving bears little resemblance to the revisionist version that this young generation has been indoctrinated with. Shout it out loud! God wishes that no one should perish, but that all men should come to repentance (Native and White men alike)!
Be truly thankful for God's love and mercy for natives and white settlers alike on this holiday. For Jesus Christ, God of the human race laid his life down to relieve man of every weight, and the sins that so easily beset us. Yes, rejoice! For had the pilgrims not survived, these young naive college students would have no false white guilt to bear.
Everything is racist in Obamanation.
No. End of story.
Rush Limbaugh Tells ‘The True Story of Thanksgiving’
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/11/26/rush-limbaugh-tells-the-true-story-of-thanksgiving/
To a RACIST, yes, it is.
Do you know what one indian fella said to the other when they were sitting on Plymouth rock as a mermaid swam up to them? HOW
Bookmarked.
No its not racist.
Pass the gravy.
Anything done by old, dead white guys is obviously racis’. QED.
Is it racist?
Now that we can deep fry turkeys as well as chickens, how could it be racist?
If you say so, but in the other thread I merely said that Sukkot is a festival of ingathering. It's to commemorate the sheltering of the tribes of Israel when they were traveling the Wilderness.
All white history is racist doncha know?
Everything is racist, except black racism.
Rocks are racist. Did you know that? Certain trees are, as well. Oh yes. Only by acknowledging that can we move forward as a nation.
Is Thanksgiving racist?
No.
The holiday with the race is Memorial Day.
Yes, I thought is was great and I co-opted it! The feast of booths, or tabernacles, IS INDEED a foreshadow of God (Jesus Christ) coming back to live with men. That is why on the mount of transfiguration Peter asked if it they should build booths for Elijah, Moses, and Jesus!
Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation.
http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/thanks.htm
Every year same BS.....nothing “new”....the globalist trying to fundamentally “change” America.
Of course it is. Everything is racist. The dog is racist so is the tree out back. The squirrels? Their racists too.
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