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11/24/2015 The War on Thanksgiving: The Regressive battles, those wanting to turn tradition into day of mourning.

http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/the-war-on-thanksgiving/

“When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing – they believe in anything.”

That’s what G.K. Chesterton told us, and it’s true.

Because so many of us no longer believe in the God of the Bible, we no longer have any standard for t***h. Some even dispute whether there is such a thing as t***h. That’s how crazy it can get.

The latest evidence of this assault on standards and t***h comes in the form of confusion about what to teach about Thanksgiving in America’s government schools.

Check out Sam Levine’s piece in the Huffington Puffington Post explaining why Thanksgiving is a national day of mourning for some Americans.

Or read blogger Meghan Duffey’s earlier treatise on the same idea.

Or note how a few years ago the Seattle school district sent out a letter to staff warning that the holiday is not a joyous occasion for all Americans, but rather, as Superintendent Willard Bill explained, a “time of mourning,” not celebration.

A holiday that was designed to bring all Americans together is now itself a point of division and controversy.

This is what happens when we accentuate our differences rather than our common ground.

This is what happens when people who are in a constant state of agitation, misery and ingratitude gain influence.

It was once so easy. It was once so beautiful. It was once so … pure.

There are some 28 references to the word “thanksgiving” in the King James Bible – all but six in the Old Testament. For the ancient children of Israel, thanksgiving was a time of feasting and fasting, of praising God, of singing songs. It was a rich celebration – and still is for observant Jews today.

William Bradford, the leader of the Pilgrims, studied the Hebrew scriptures. The Pilgrims took them very seriously. The idea of giving thanks to God with a feast was inspired by that knowledge of the Bible. In a very real way, the Pilgrims saw themselves, too, as chosen people of God being led to a Promised Land.

At the table, they acknowledged “God’s good providence” and “blessed the God of Heaven who brought us over the furious ocean.” For “what could sustain us but the Spirit of God and His grace?” asked Bradford. He then quoted Moses: “Our fathers cried unto Him, and He heard their voice and looked on their adversity” (Deuteronomy 26:7).

In addition to proclaiming a day of thanksgiving, like the ancient Hebrews did before them, Bradford and his flock also praised God’s loving kindness, the famous refrain of Psalms 106 and 107 and Jewish liturgy (“Give thanks to the Lord for He is good, for His kindness endures forever”).

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By the way, those Pilgrims didn’t murder their native American friends.

They invited them to their table.

The “thanksgiving” idea took different forms in colonial America. It wasn’t until George Washington, the republic’s first president, proclaimed Nov. 26, 1789, as a day for thanking God for bringing America through its trials, that an official holiday was marked.

Washington, too, was a student of the Hebrew scriptures. He believed with all his heart that America would be blessed only if it acknowledged the source of all blessings.

Here’s what George Washington proclaimed on Oct. 3, 1789:

“Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly implore His protection and favor; and whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.

“Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the twenty-six of November next, to be dev**ed by the people of these States to the service of that Great and Glorious Being, who is the Beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country, previous to their becoming a nation; for the single manifold mercies, and the favorable interposition’s of His providence, in the courage and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish Constitutions of Government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.

“And also, that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the Great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other t***sgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private institutions, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discretely and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us) and to bless them with good governments, peace and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science, among them and us; and generally, to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.”

These ideas could only become controversial in an age of moral relativism. There is no God.

There is no t***h. There is no right and wrong.

Is that what we want to teach the next generation?

As for me and my house, we will be thanking the Lord for all He has provided for us.

How about you?

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