Today's American Minute

Renaissance, Reformation and Influence of Calvin and Knox on American Revolution - American Minute with Bill Federer

November 30, 2024 • & John Witherspoon • How the Renaissance and Reformation led to the Revolution: John Calvin • John Knox

Hessian Jager Corps Captain Johann Heinrichs wrote to the Counsellor of the Court, January 18, 1778: "Call this war, dearest friend, by whatsoever name you may, only call it not an American Revolution, it is nothing more nor less than an Irish-Scotch Presbyterian Rebellion.”

Pilgrim Thanksgiving, Struggles, Dangers and Attacks, Then and Now - American Minute with Bill Federer

November 28, 2024 • Pilgrim Thanksgiving "God be Praised we had a Good Increase...Our Harvest being gotten in"-Pilgrim Edward Winslow

Pilgrim Edward Winslow recorded in Mourt's Relation that in the Fall of 1621: "God be praised we had a good increase ... Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors. They four in one day killed as much fowl as, with a little help beside, served the company almost a week."

Thanksgiving Proclamations by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, Roosevelt, & others - American Minute with Bill Federer

November 27, 2024 • & others • Jefferson • Lincoln • Madison • Roosevelt • Thanksgiving Proclamations by Washington

Traitor Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point was thwarted. The Continental Congress proclaimed a Day of Thanksgiving, October 18, 1780: "In the late remarkable interposition of His watchful providence, in the rescuing the person of our Commander-in-Chief and the army from imminent dangers, at the moment when treason was ripened for execution ... it is therefore recommended ... a Day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer ... to confess our unworthiness ... and to offer fervent supplications to the God of all grace ... to cause the knowledge of Christianity to spread over all the earth."

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

November 26, 2024 • "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 ..."

William Brewster & How Pilgrim "Covenant" twisted into "Social Contract," then Socialism - American Minute with Bill Federer

November 26, 2024 • " 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.