Posted on 12/20/2019 12:12:16 PM PST by Pelham
The title is one that I had to create since this is taken from Beck's radio show.
Did you know that American history is divided between those who brought to the New World Kindness, Good Relations, and Freedom?
Versus those who "came over to rape this land" and who brought Misery, Slavery, Abuse, and eventually Cannibalism?
Well you can learn all about it from master historian Glenn Beck, who is planning to share this Forgotten History with lucky Americans in his coming "Restoring the Covenant" Crusade.
(Excerpt) Read more at player.fm ...
Everyone conflates the two because the names look similar and they settled in the same region. But they weren't the same.
Pilgrims were separatists and poor. Puritans were not separatists and they were wealthy. And they had theological differences. Pilgrims were eventually overwhelmed by the influx of Puritans. New England became a Puritan culture.
What’s the Difference Between Puritans and Pilgrims?
'....This theological split between Separatists and non-separating Puritans had lasting consequences.
“Separatists end up on the outside of society,” says Oman. “Even if they’re educated, they end up with low-paying jobs. They leave for places like the Netherlands, where they’re also not financially successful. Meanwhile, the Puritans stay wealthy.”
When the Puritans settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, they arrived in 17 ships carrying more than 1,000 passengers. They came with money and resources and divinely ordained arrogance. Just 10 years later, the Massachusetts Bay Colony was a Puritan stronghold of 20,000, while humble Plymouth was home to just 2,600 Pilgrims. Plymouth was fully swallowed up by Mass Bay just a few decades later.
(READ MORE: When Massachusetts Puritans Banned Christmas)
Because the Pilgrims and the Puritans share a similar backstory, their legacies often got blurred in the minds of later generations of Americans, and not always accidentally. Writing in 1820, Daniel Webster used the Pilgrims as nostalgic symbols of Manifest Destiny, which was more of a Puritan thing:
“Two thousand miles westward from the rock where their fathers landed, may now be found the sons of the Pilgrims ... [cherishing the blessings] of wise institutions, of liberty, and religion"
Sarah Crabtree, a historian at San Francisco State University, admits that she gets frustrated by the “slippage” between the Pilgrims and the Puritans.
“It contributes to the myth that ‘the first Thanksgiving’ and ‘religious freedom’ are part and parcel of America’s origin story,” writes Crabtree in an email. “The Puritans and their ‘City on a Hill’ explicitly rejected religious freedom and never attempted to adopt the Pilgrims’ initial, fleeting cooperation with American Indian peoples.”...'
As Poe was a more innovative writer than any of the lot, his comments are as apt as you would expect.
This is from last December; I’d forgotten about it.
Larry Schweikert is helping Glenn Beck in this project to write Jamestown and the Virginia Colony out of American history.
I guess it’s their own version of BLM/Antifa’s War on American History- at least the Virginia portion.
“Since Beck is both ignorant and fairly stupid the question is who on his staff wrote this yankee ‘Hymn of Hate’ and how did it get thrust into El Stupido’s hands?”
Larry Schweikert appears to be Beck’s source, judging from the two of them on Beck’s July 2nd 2020 radio show.
Damn. I thought Beck had died and gone to wherever the Mormon Magic Underwear takes them.
My local radio station, WLNI, replaced Beck with Brian Kilmeade. A huge improvement just not having Beck cluttering up the airwaves was a relief.
I’m waiting for Beck to go toes up business wise.
His sidekicks should just lock Glenn out and do a three hour comedy show every day. Ratings would improve and they wouldn’t be losing stations.
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