Today's American Minute
Pilgrims tried Communism and rejected it -- replacing it with Property owned by Individuals who could then be Charitable! - American Minute with Bill Federer
Bradford described: "They began to consider how to raise more corn, and obtain a better crop ... that they might not continue to endure the misery of want ... After much debate, the Governor, with the advice of the chief among them, allowed each man to plant corn for his own household ... So every family was assigned a parcel of land ... This was very successful."
Without God "covenant" twists into "social contract" then "socialism" - American Minute with Bill Federer
" 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
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
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
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."