Today's American Minute
"Squanto ... a special instrument sent of God for their good beyond their expectation"-Pilgrim Governor William Bradford - American Minute with Bill Federer
William Brewster & How Pilgrim "Covenant" twisted into "Social Contract," then Socialism - American Minute with Bill Federer
" then Socialism William Brewster & How Pilgrim "Covenant" twisted into "Social Contract
- Pilgrims had a covenant where they cared for each other because each person was personally accountable to God;
- Covenant turned into social contract during the Age of Enlightenment, with God being distant and uninvolved -- an impersonal force;
- Social contract with a distant God turned into social contract with NO God during the French Revolution;
- In the 19th century, social contract with NO God turned into socialism, where the state is god.
John Knox (c.1514-November 24, 1572)
John Knox (c.1514-November 24, 1572) was the leader of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland. To appreciate the significance of John Knox, the historical setting of Europe must be explained. The King of France, Francis I, caused a scandal in Europe by making an alliance with Muslim Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent against Italy, Spain and England. Francis I ordered the punishment of religious dissidents known as Waldensians. Over the next century, religious wars between Catholics and Protestants resulted in tragic atrocities. Lorenzo de' Medici, to whom Niccolò Machiavelli dedicated his notorious book, The Prince, 1515, had his daughter, Catherine de' Medici, marry the next...
Ambroise Pare' (1510-December 20, 1590)
Ambroise Pare' (1510-December 20, 1590) was a pioneer French surgeon, who greatly raised the standard of surgery. Rising to fame as a field surgeon in the French army, he discarded the common practice of cauterization, (using hot irons and boiling oils in the sealing of wounds), in favor of cleansing wounds with ointments and performing ligatures, surgically tying off major arteries. Ambroise Pare' was so successful that he was appointed to the court and served four different kings. The favorite saying of Ambroise Pare' was: <I treated him, God cured him.> 1510AP001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All...
John Calvin (July 10, 1509-May 27, 1564)
John Calvin (July 10, 1509-May 27, 1564) was a renown religious reformer in Geneva, Switzlerland. Calvin's followers were called Calvinists, With kings and queens killing subjects who believed differently than they did, Calvin wrestled with Romans 13: "Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God." For most of world history the "governing authorities" were monarchs. Monarchs had subjects who were required to submit to government mandates. A problem arose, though. What if the "governing authority" had mandate to kill you and your family if you believed differently? Reformers who "protested"...