Topic: The Tragedy of the Mayflower (Read 137 times)

BUMP for the “holiday” weekend (which will be followed by “Cyber Monday”, and...).

God doesn't mind that people voluntarily observe this day but not that one. St. Paul even say so. As long as people are convinced in their own minds and hearts.

The idea of the pilgrims was religious freedom. And it was so important to the founding fathers of the USA, that they kept the idea as part of the 1st Article to the Bill of Rights (1st Amendment to the Constitution).

It would be interesting to know how many of the people left the community and started their own branch religion/denomination. The important thing is knowing Jesus-salvation by faith.

A group of Calvinist religious fanatics, in full rebellion against the traditions of their forefathers, thus brought with them to virgin shores the memetic virus of do-gooding moral evangelism that made Massachusetts ever a plague to the other American colonies, and makes America a plague to the whole world today.

The Pilgrims were so indistinct from the Puritans that the two groups are oft confused with each other.  Indeed, the idiots who banned Christmas, a holiday that they correctly identified as “pagan” (and therefore hated for its essential nature), infamously included Mayflower passenger William Bradford, who cracked down on Christmas merriment in 1621—right after the Pilgrims’ first “Thanksgiving”!


The cultural issue of both groups was the obsession both with change, and with moral scrupulosity, which mutated into New England liberalism.  To those who look to first principles, it is wholly unsurprising that their descendants dabbled in all manner of fantasies from Unitarianism to Transcendentalism to Unitarian Universalism—ultimately winding up as the extreme modern liberals whom we all know and despise.  It is no wonder that liberals love “virtue-signalling”:  They are simply religious zealots who, like the Pilgrims and other Boston-area fanatical cults, have repudiated traditional religions.

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So—because the Pilgrims’ ill-conceived, unprepared traipse into the wilderness somehow did not result in them all dying, they now have a “holiday” which, in truth, is significantly older, but somehow became misappropriated for them.




For the morrow:

The Puritans’ and Pilgrims’ war on Christmas ultimately succeeded by other means:  Their crass and ruthless mercantile culture transformed the Christmas holiday into an extended American shopping spree.  It is all too fitting that the commercialization of Christmas is directly associated with “Thanksgiving” via the most peculiarly American of all holidays:  Black Friday.

As a non-Christian who appreciates the ancient spirit whence came the historical Christmas holiday, I remind you that celebrating any “holiday” by buying useless consumer junk shows only that life is cheap, and you are worthless.

Thanks for nothing.

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