Today's American Minute

Without God "covenant" twists into "social contract" then "socialism" - American Minute with Bill Federer

November 13, 2025 • " then Socialism • William Brewster & How Pilgrim "Covenant" twisted into "Social Contract

In recapping:

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.

Veterans Day "In test and trial, we...turn to God for courage"-Eisenhower - American Minute with Bill Federer

November 09, 2025 • Veterans Day "In time of test and trial • we instinctively turn to God for new courage and peace of mind"-Eisenhower - American Minute with Bill Federer

General Douglas MacArthur told West Point cadets, May 1962: "The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training - sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death, he discloses those Divine attributes which his Maker gave when He created man in His own image ..."

"Squanto ... a special instrument sent of God for their good beyond their expectation"-Pilgrim Governor William Bradford - American Minute with Bill Federer

November 05, 2025 • "Squanto ... a special instrument sent of God for their good beyond their expectation"-Pilgrim Governor William Bradford

Governor Bradford wrote: "Squanto was a native of these parts, and had been one of the few survivors of the plague hereabouts.

He was carried away with others by one Hunt, a captain of a ship, who intended to sell them for slaves in Spain ..."

Pilgrims almost sailed to Guyana: History of Spanish and French attempts to settle America - American Minute with Bill Federer

November 03, 2025

Adam Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations, 1776: "The Spaniards ... claimed all America as their own, and ... such was ... the terror of their name, that the greater part of the other nations of Europe were afraid to establish themselves in any other part of that great continent ... But ... the defeat ... of their Invincible Armada ... put it out of their power to obstruct any longer the settlements of the other European nations."

Luther & Protestant Reformation's Political Repercussions on America's Founding - American Minute with Bill Federer

October 31, 2025 • Luther & the Protestant Reformation's Political Repercussions on America's Founding

British Statesman Edmund Burke addressed Parliament, 1775: "All Protestantism ... is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our Northern Colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion."