Today's American Minute
Ancient Hebrew Republic inspired Pastors & their "Covenant" Congregations in founding New England - American Minute with Bill Federer
Harvard President Samuel Langdon then gave an address, June 5, 1788, titled: "The Republic of the Israelites an Example to the American States," stating: "Instead of the twelve tribes of ISRAEL, we may substitute the thirteen states of the American union, and see this application plainly ... The ISRAELITES may be considered as a pattern to the world in all ages ... Government ... on republican principles."
"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 tried Communism -- and rejected it, -- replacing it with Property owned by Individuals who could then be Charitable! - American Minute with Bill Federer
Bradford described individual capitalism: "I answer, seeing that all men have this failing in them, that God in His wisdom saw that another plan of life was fitter for them ... So they began to consider how to raise more corn, and obtain a better crop than they had done, so that they might not continue to endure the misery of want ... At length 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, according to the proportion of their number ..."
Thanksgiving Proclamations by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, Roosevelt, & others - American Minute with Bill Federer
& others Jefferson Lincoln Madison Roosevelt Thanksgiving Proclamations by Washington
After 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."
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
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.