- The first Thanksgiving reflected America’s religious founding
- Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November “as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens”
- Thanksgiving is about gratefulness to a transcendent God
- The Pilgrims were not giving thanks to gaea or the benevolence of the state
Lincoln’s proclamation available at https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/11/conserving-thanksgiving/
We are grateful for America — its seekers, its religious /political founding, its inspired founders, especially its many blessings in spite of our unworthiness from God who knows our failings and inconsistencies.
It is “ahistoric” that this now nation was not created in a chain of events motivated by Christian inspired religious fervor and insight — from the Pilgrims through the Declaration of Independence, the Constitutional Convention and beyond.
Its founding and the subsequent migration here was motivated first and foremost by a pursuit of religious freedom –freedom from state favored even imposed sectarianism and other impositions of the state. Religious freedom properly entails that the irreligious can live in peace and prosper, and so it attracted them as well (hopefully to realize the transcendent). It does not mean religious based ideas can not be favored, invoked, implemented. Freedom to peacefully argue for ones’ ideas without punishment by government is key, not that anything goes. That is the ideal behind our American culture of freedom.
Liberals/Democrats want to create the religion of the state, reducing religious and personal freedom. They offer a few licenses, opiates if you will, to the masses that attract them but any play-out of their concept of well-being — is dismal — economically — socially — familialy. The left has not merely willing accomplices but cheerleaders inculcated in nominally religious institutions, many thoroughly politicized with actually religiously hostile doctrine dominating those institutions with the religion of the state — a religion intolerant and unforgiving.
We celebrate our founding, our ideals, our nation, the gifts we have received — in all humility we thank God knowing our undeservedness — but all here should know they reside in a land the abundance and stability of which was inspired by and dependent on religious principles of freedom, not an overpowering state.
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