Posted on 10/13/2008 9:00:36 PM PDT by truthluva
RUSH: Now, the real story of Thanksgiving: "On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a total of 102 passengers, including forty Pilgrims led by William Bradford. On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement, a contract, that established just and equal laws for all members of the new community, irrespective of their religious beliefs. Where did the revolutionary ideas expressed in the Mayflower Compact come from? From the Bible," and this is what's not taught. This is what's left out. "The Pilgrims were a people completely steeped in the lessons of the Old and New Testaments. They looked to the ancient Israelites for their example. And, because of the biblical precedents set forth in Scripture, they never doubted that their experiment would work. But this was no pleasure cruise, friends. The journey to the New World was a long and arduous one. And when the Pilgrims landed in New England in November, they found, according to Bradford's detailed journal, a cold, barren, desolate wilderness. There were no friends to greet them, he wrote. There were no houses to shelter them. There were no inns where they could refresh themselves. And the sacrifice they had made for freedom was just beginning. During the first winter, half the Pilgrims -- including Bradford's own wife -- died of either starvation, sickness, or exposure.
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Agreed it’s always good to know our history. Nowadays, Thanksgiving is being marginalized in some schools, the way Christmas has been for years. The politically correct denigration of Thanksgiving is due to alleged injustices committed against American Indians.
Heck, today on Columbus Day, some people have protested because Columbus didn’t have a politically correct view of the world. They want the holiday changed to “Indigenous People’s Day” as a celebration of the cultures of American Indians, Mayans and Aztecs in Mexico, Incas in Peru, etc.
Yep, in today’s world of hostility to religion, we can’t talk about the religious roots of the Mayflower Compact, or the religious views of our Founding Fathers. We can’t even call them the Founding Fathers (the PC term is “Framers” of the Constitution) because calling them fathers is somehow offensive to the N.O.W. crowd. The fact that they were all men is irrelevant to them. You can’t call the Founding Fathers and still be poltically correct.
> And when the Pilgrims landed in New England in November, they found, according to Bradford’s detailed journal, a cold, barren, desolate wilderness. There were no friends to greet them, he wrote. There were no houses to shelter them. There were no inns where they could refresh themselves. And the sacrifice they had made for freedom was just beginning. During the first winter, half the Pilgrims — including Bradford’s own wife — died of either starvation, sickness, or exposure.
Just a taste of what the early settlers of the New World went through. Amazing courage of what true Americans were really like: adventurous, independent and don’t give a FF.
Nowadays, kids would go nuts without their PSP for 15 minutes.
You are so right.
My maternal grandmother was full Choctaw. She loved this country and was a true patriot. She worked hard all her life and never questioned that love of God and country were worth fighting for. She never spoke of injustices and never wanted her children to think of themselves as victims. The libs in this country today would probably hate her as much as they hate Sarah Palin
Today those teachers would be accused of child abuse by the lib parents. Not because they were stingy with the food, but for obvius lib reasons.
That is why the school was "at sea" and the ships were registered Panamanian. No U.S. government oversight. By the way... you are right, the kids have "rights" these days.
The really idiotic thing about this is you can't even talk about the full range of religious views of the American Indians! The Aztecs converted to Christianity en masse in the 1500s, and the New World was covered with missions full of American Indian converts, from the French missions of Canada and the Northwest to the California Missions, to the Jesuit Reductions of Paraguay. Leftists will go on and on about a book like "Black Elk Speaks" and just conveniently fail to mention that Black Elk was a devout Catholic and a catechist.
When leftists don't outright ignore Christian Native history, it's fun to watch them conjure up dumb theories to explain it: "oh, well, you know that it was only a surface conversion, don'cha know!" or "Well, they only did so as a means of gaining spirit power!"
District Event
District Staff Development
No mention of why the holiday beyond that. Happy District Staff Development Day just doesn't quite make it.
Good point about the holiday names. Years ago, school schedules openly mentioned Christmas vacation, Easter vacation, and Columbus Day. Now, it’s got to be Winter break, Spring break, and Staff Development day.
We’ll know for sure that political correctness has won the culture war if Veteran’s Day disappears, and is replaced by some sort of world peace day. Maybe Thanksgiving vacation in schools will become “Fall Break”.
And see what happens in the future with existing holidays such as Martin Luther King’s Birthday. Some have complained in recent years that not enough businesses and schools close for Martin Luther King’s Birthday. In their minds, I’m sure King’s birthday is more significant than these other holidays. Maybe more force will be brought to bear to force the celebration of Martin Luther King’s birthday? I know that banks, many schools, and gov’t offices are closed that day, but it’s just another business day in much of the business world, as if it didn’t exist.
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