Posted on 11/24/2023 9:22:43 PM PST by moonhawk
Did you know that Thanksgiving is a Catholic holiday? True, it’s not on the Church calendar. And it is celebrated only in America, whereas Church holidays are universal.
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But any time a nation does anything in unison that involves families getting together and counting their blessings, it is a good thing. “Thanks,” says G.K. Chesterton, “is the highest form of thought.” And he mentions the fact that the worst moment for an atheist is when he is thankful and suddenly realizes he has no one to thank.
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What most people believe is a variation on what I was taught in public school in the 1960s. The Pilgrims came to Plymouth on a ship called the Mayflower. They were the first English settlers in America. They came for religious freedom. And they had a big feast with Indians, and that was the first Thanksgiving. That about sums it up. And that is what Chesterton calls “The Myth of the Mayflower.”
First of all, they were not known as “pilgrims” till about 200 years afterwards. They were Puritans, a radical Anglican “low church” sect that loathed the “high church” Anglicans that happened to include the King of England. In fact, about 30 years after the Puritans arrived in America, some of their fellow Puritans back in England arranged for King Charles I to have his head chopped off.
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The Puritans who came to Plymouth in 1620 almost didn’t survive. Half the settlers died the first winter. They were saved by a Native American named Squanto, who taught them how to hunt and fish and grow corn.
But here’s what is really interesting: Squanto was a Roman Catholic.
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Yes. I did. They idea that Squanto “coverted” to Catholicism is a myth.
Source?
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Squanto
https://www.biography.com/history-culture/squanto
It is only Catholic accounts that ascribe conversion to Catholicism to Squanto.
Exactly “ROTFLMAO”.
Didn’t you know that the Mayflower was loaded to the brim with RCs? LOL!
Or maybe that year between landing in Plymouth and the First Thanksgiving they all converted to RC. (They were so anti-RC they many objected to Christmas celebrations because it’s Christ”MASS”. They despised the Pope.)
Protestant — a member or follower of any of the Western Christian churches that are separate from the Roman Catholic Church and follow the principles of the Reformation, including the Baptist, Presbyterian, and Lutheran churches.
It's fiction.
Your fiction!!!
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