We are fast approaching the Holiday season in America. Now, I don’t mean the politically correct “winter break” or “winter solstice” or any of that Left-Wing pabulum. I mean we are approaching Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
Thanksgiving is set aside as a day to give thanks to God for his bounty bestowed upon this nation, and Christmas... to celebrate the birth of the Son of God, the Savior, Jesus Christ.
Today, Christians, in this nation and around the world, are being persecuted to a degree not seen in many centuries. Some of the worst persecution is being levied against the Christians in the very nation founded by Christians, America.
A movement straight out of the bowels of Hell, called "Political Correctness", is destroying this nation. It is undermining the tenants upon which this nation was founded and re-writing history in an attempt to remove our children from their birthright inheritance of a nation based on the Judeo-Christian faith.
When the Mayflower dropped anchor, just off these shores, in November of 1620, the crew and passengers gathered to thank God for their safe, though troubled, passage to this new world. And then… they drew up a document, which would be
come the founding document for this nation. It was the "Mayflower Compact".Little noted these days because it’s contents are explosive… blowing holes through the Politically Correct doctrine that this nation was not founded on Christian values and is not a Christian nation. As a result, many textbooks stir a course far away from, or around, the actual contents of that document which would put the lie to their claims of a totally secular nation.
Have you ever read the Mayflower Compact? My guess is that most of you have not. Well, grab your reading glasses, ‘cause here it is:
In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereigne Lord, King James, by the grace of God, of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland king, defender of the faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God and the advancement of the Christian faith,
and honour of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northerne parts of Virginia, doe, by these presents, solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politick, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enacte, constitute, and frame such just and equall laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the generall good of the Colonie unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cap-Codd the II. of November, in the year of the reign of our sovereigne lord, King James of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fiftie-fourth. Anno. Dom. 1620Below are the names of the men aboard the Mayflower who signed on to the above document: (Note: None of the women aboard signed. I’m assuming they were not permitted.)
John Carver, John Howland, William Brewster, Edward Winslow, George Soule, William Bradford, Isaac Allerton, Samuel Fuller, John Craxton, Miles Standish, Christopher Martin, William Mullins, William White, Stephen Hopkins,
Edward Doten, Edward Liester, Richard Warren, John Billington, Edward Tilly, John Tilly, Francis Cooke, Thomas Rogers, Thomas Tinker, John Rigdale, James Chilton, Edward Fuller, John Turner, Francis Eaton, Moses Fletcher, John Goodman, Thomas Williams, Digery Priest, Edmond Margesson, Peter Brown, Richard Bitteridge, Richard Clark, Richard Gardiner, Gilbert Winslow, John Alden, John Allerton, and Thomas English.
Do you see the danger this document presents? It shreds the claims of a secular nation by today’s Political Left.
As Americans we have much for which to be thankful. Not the least is those hardy souls aboard the Mayflower who weathered the storms of the Atlantic, during the period of the year we now know as the "Hurricane Season", to start anew and to plant the seeds of what would become a New Nation, Under God.
“Longstreet”
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I thought the Pilgrims left England for religious freedom.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bartleby.com/65/pi/Pilgrims.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrims
It's a common error. Think nothing of it.
ReplyDeleteTruth be told... they were looking for a place to practice THEIR religion THEIR way.
Some were looking to escape religious persecution but we seem to that o.k here in this country, Christians (myself not included) persecute, racially profile, and are down right ignorant most of the time. I thought the document was called the Magna Charter though unless that was something else. "Lord Jesus save us from your followers."
ReplyDelete"hereunder subscribed our names at Cap-Codd the II. of November, in the year of the reign of our sovereigne lord, King James of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fiftie-fourth. Anno. Dom. 1620"
ReplyDeleteWe do not follow the king anymore either. And to do what is best for the colonie has sure changed since then too.