Posted on 11/22/2023 3:22:26 PM PST by FreedomPoster
I doubt it.
I remember Rush telling a similar story.
Ah ha! That explains present day Massachusetts.
Listen to Dave Barton break down the written history of this. Jamestown was socialists/communists folks who failed. Plymouth Rock was truly committed to God and the true selfless faith that causes people to prosper together in back breaking work, putting others before themselves.
Bradford was lying? What reason would he have to lie?
Pfffft, Next they’ll say Santa Claus isn’t real.
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
Biblical fundamentalism almost did them in.
Human nature does not change.
Anyway, the first Thanksgiving feast was in St. Augustine Florida, by Catholic Spaniards, more than 50 years before Plymouth. But that would endanger the myth of Protestant anglo America, so it must be scrubbed and sanitized to ensure Northeastern hegemony.
November 1621. First Thanksgiving. Three days. Pilgrims and Native Americans together. No hoax about that.
No.
2 Thessalonians 3:6-12 Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.
For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not idle when we were with you, nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you. It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate.
For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies. Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.
Every year.
I would wager many Thanksgiving obervations preceded the one you mention, as well as the “first” one on our soil. It has been part and parcel of human history for ages to pause and give thanks. It’s not as if we need a competition in that field, or do we?
“Oh, those were the days”
Yes I miss him.
“...the first Thanksgiving feast was in St. Augustine Florida, by Catholic Spaniards, more than 50 years before Plymouth.”
Could you tell us more about that?
If you want to be literal-the people who were around to celebrate a thankgiving in St. Augustine Florida weren’t Mexicans-they were Spaniards-most were from Spain-not from the part of Spanish territory called Mexico. Pilgrims weren’t American, either unless they were born in America-the only Americans here when the Europeans and the Brits-including pilgrims-arrived were the Native American/Indians-so they were the only Americans at any of the Thanksgiving dinners anywhere on this continent before at least 1776. The American continent was divided into colonies/territories-no countries.
My ancestors were from Spain-they came to Mexico from Spain in the late 1500’s or so-technically speaking, they were not Mexicans because they were not born there-and it was just part of New Spain-not a country yet-they came to Texas and NM around 1780, but none of that was part of the Brit colonies-even Louisiana had not been given back to France by Spain in 1800, and there were only the former colonies to call a country/USA in 1800...
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