Rethinking Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is just one month away, and, I suspect, many of us will have much to be thankful for this year – as our country tries to right itself from some terrible mistakes.

One of the hallmarks of Thanksgiving when I was a child was the school play commemorating the Pilgrims' harvest festival that we often consider as the inspiration for our modern holiday.

In those participatory lessons 40 or 50 years ago, students portrayed the European Pilgrim settlers in search of religious freedom as well as indigenous native Americans who, as history tells us, gathered for a harvest festival to give thanks to God for their blessings.

What are those school plays like today? What do American kids learn today about the Pilgrims? What is taught about the historical meaning of Thanksgiving?

"The New World of Thanksgiving" by David Horsey

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Ironically, you would think the multiculturalists would look at that first harvest festival as a validation of their hope and aspirations for the way diverse peoples could gather together in love, peace, cooperation and harmony – because that's exactly what happened at Plymouth.

But that's not the case at all.

Why? Because it's more important for the secular state schools to strip away any notion of the idea that we should be thankful to God for everything – the food on our tables, the roofs over our heads and the freedoms to worship as we please.

It's not only sad, it's a tragedy for our children who are denied real history lessons and indoctrinated into an anti-American brand of revisionism and the religion of secular humanism.

The second priority of our hyper-secular, multicultural schools is to inculcate our children with a resentment and deep suspicion about the "racist" European "conquerors" who settled in America in favor of a glorification of the indigenous and "saintly" natives who were here first.

Too often today, the meaning of Thanksgiving has been twisted into an unrecognizable and imaginary historical event in which the hapless Pilgrims were actually expressing thanks, not to God, but to Indians.

It's an illustration of the lie of multiculturalism.

Multiculturalism is not about everyone getting along.

It's not about uniting.

It's about dividing.

Where this destructive ideology has been implemented as state policy, it has resulted in pain, suffering and oppression.

Just ask the Europeans, who now have a much more realistic view of this utopian notion.

If ever there were a remarkable historical example of different peoples gathering together in celebration, it is that Plymouth harvest festival that we associate with Thanksgiving.

But that's not the multiculturalists' vision. They prefer to distort and twist and demean what actually happened there in favor of mean-spirited caricatures of the Pilgrims and unrealistic portrayals of the nonwhite participants as oppressed minorities.

Who is to blame for the way our children's values are being manipulated?

Who is to blame for the way our children's minds are being indoctrinated?

Who is to blame for the way history is being misrepresented to kids?

Who is to blame for the way God and faith in Him is marginalized and censored?

America's parents are to blame for subjecting their children to these abuses and for failing to recognize these schools are not the same kind of institutions we attended so many years ago.

It's not enough, in my opinion, to protest. It's not enough to grouse about it. It's not enough to acknowledge it. It's not even enough at this point to try to work within the system to change it.

The responsible thing to do is to protect the hearts, minds and souls of our kids by withdrawing them from the clutches of this perverse religion of anti-American secular humanism that is taught in the government schools.

Changing the face of Washington on Election Day is all well and good – and I'm thankful this year America has awakened to the necessity of doing just that.

But we all have a lot of work to do much closer to home. We have critically important decisions to make about the future of America that our children represent. I hope you will reflect and pray about that from now through Thanksgiving Day.