Lest We Forget The TRUE Meaning of Thanksgiving…
By Pastor Ezekiel

The arrival of Europeans on the east cost of North America occurred not
in 1620, but well before. French and Dutch fishermen and settlers had
been in the area as early as 1614, and had been responsible for
kidnapping Indians, selling them into slavery, and heroically infecting
them with smallpox.
In 1620 the pilgrims arrived on the east coast and within two days they
had been assaulted from the local Wampanoag Indian tribe: The pilgrims
stole their stored crops, dug up graves for dishes and pots, and took
many native people as prisoners and ordered them to teach crop planting
and survival techniques to the colonists in their new environment, in
the name of Jesus.
Luckily, for the colonists, an ex-slave named Squanto had recently
escaped slavery in England, spoke English fluently and was able to act
as field boss. Squanto was the first ex-injun, and he was also one of
the only survivors of his tribe, the rest had been wiped out from the
European smallpox plagues years before.
When it came to helping the heroic and Godly team of colonists, Squanto,
not only was able to put aside his personal differences with the people
who had enslaved him and killed off his entire tribe, but also helped
make the colonists self-sufficient, and aided in brokering a treaty with
the Wampanoag tribe.
In 1621 Massasoit, the chief of the Wampanoags, signed a “treaty of
friendship” giving the English permission to occupy 12,000 acres of
land. In 1621 thanksgiving was born. The colonists invited Massasoit,
chief of the Wampanoags, to their first feast as a follow up to their
recent land deal. Massasoit in turn invited 90 of his men, much to the
disgust of the colonists. None of them had even bothered to take a bath
before the event, and most of them arrived drunk and naked.
Two years later the English invited a number of tribes to a feast
“symbolizing eternal friendship.” The English offered food and drink,
and two hundred Indians dropped dead from unknown poison Christ’s mercy.
The first day of thanksgiving took place in 1637 amidst the war against
the Pequots. 700 men, women, and children of the Pequot tribe were
gathered for their annual green corn dance on what is now Groton,
Connecticut. Dutch and English Christians surrounded the camp and
proceeded to shoot, stab, butcher and burn alive all 700 people. The
next day the Massachusetts Bay Colony held a feast in celebration and
the governor declared “a day of thanksgiving.” Praise JESUS!!
In the ensuing Christian program of Indian extermination, natives were
scalped, burned, mutilated and sold into slavery, and a feast was held
in celebration every time a successful massacre took place. The killing
frenzy got so Godly that even the Churches of Manhattan announced a day
of “thanksgiving” to celebrate victory over the “heathen savages,” and
many celebrated by kicking the severed heads of Pequot people through
the streets like soccer balls. Shout Glory!!
The proclamation of 1676 announced the first national day of
thanksgiving with the onset of the Wampanoag war, the very people who
helped the original colonists survive on their arrival. Massasoit, the
chief invited to eat with the puritans in 1621, died in 1661. His son
Metacomet, later to be known by the English as King Phillip, originally
honored the treaties made by his father with the colonists, but after
years of further encroachment and destruction of the land, slave trade,
and slaughter, Metacomet changed his mind.
In 1675 “King Phillip” called upon all natives to unite to defend their
homelands from the English. For the next year the bloody conflict went
on non-stop, until Metacomet was captured, murdered, quartered, his
hands were cut off and sent to Boston, his head was impaled on a pike in
the town square of Plymouth for the next 25 years, and his
nine-year-old son was shipped to the Caribbean to be a slave for the
rest of his life. Isn’t God wonderful??
On June 20, 1676 Edward Rawson was unanimously voted by the governing
council of Charlestown, Massachusetts, to proclaim June 29th as the
first day of thanksgiving. The proclamation reads in part: “The Holy God
having by a long and Continual Series of his Afflictive dispensations
in and by the present War with the Heathen Natives of this land, written
and brought to pass bitter things against his own Covenant people in
this wilderness, yet so that we evidently discern that in the midst of
his judgments he hath remembered mercy… The council has thought meet to
appoint and set apart the 29th day of this instant June, as a day of
solemn Thanksgiving and praise to God for such his Goodness and Favor…”
It was not until 1863 that the liberal race-traitor Abe Lincoln, needing
a wave of patriotism to hold the country together, that Thanksgiving
was nationally and officially declared and set forth to this day. At the
time, two days were announced as days to give thanks, the first was a
celebration of the victory at Gettysburg on August 6th, and the second
one became the Thursday in November that we know now.
The most interesting part of thanksgiving is the current liberal
propaganda that has been put out surrounding it. During the 19th century
thanksgiving traditions consisted of turkey and family reunions.
Whenever popular art contained both pilgrims and Indians, the scene was
usually characterized by violent confrontations between the two groups,
not a race-mixing dinner party.
In 1914 artist Jennie Brownscombe created the vision of thanksgiving
that we see today: community, religion, racial harmony and tolerance,
after her notorious painting reached wide circulation in Life magazine.
Radical injun riots to the celebration of thanksgiving have taken place
over the years. As early as 1863 Pequot Indian Minister William Apess
urged “every man of color” to mourn the day of the landing, and bury
Plymouth Rock in protest. In 1970 Apess got his way.
1970 was the “350th” anniversary of thanksgiving, and became the first
proclaimed national day of mourning for American Indians.
State officials of Massachusetts asked Frank B. James, President of the
federated Eastern Indian League (a drunk savage), to speak at the
thanksgiving celebration. The blasphemous pack of lies he submitted
read:
Quote:
“Today is a time of celebrating for you… but it is not a time of celebrating for me. It is with heavy heart that I look back upon what happened to my people… The pilgrims had hardly explored the shores of Cape Cod… before they had robbed the graves of my ancestors, and stolen their corn, wheat, and beans… Massasoit, the great leader of the Wampanoag, knew these facts; yet he and his people welcomed and befriended the settlers…, little knowing that… before 50 years were to pass, the Wampanoags… and other Indians living near the settlers would be killed by their guns or dead from diseases that we caught from them… Although our way of life is almost gone and our language is almost extinct, we the Wampanoags still walk the lands of Massachusetts. What has happened cannot be changed, but today we work toward a better America, a more Indian America where people and nature once again are important.” |
Jimmie was subsequently barred from speaking, and given a job tending the boiler room in city hall.
So this year and every year, when you bow your heads and tell Jesus how thankful you are for that big juicy Butterball© on the table, be sure and remember how it got there; Threw the heroic struggles of the early Americans, who, with God’s help, took possession of the land the injuns pre-stole, as God intended.
Replies:
Basilissa (25-11-2020 04:56 PM): Are you guys planning a HUGE Thanksgiving dinner for tomorrow??? I certainly am, it will be the biggest Thanksgiving family gathering in years, a great chance to see some elderly relatives before they ...
Dr. Anthony J. Toole (25-11-2020 07:10 PM): Are you guys planning a HUGE Thanksgiving dinner for tomorrow??? I certainly am, it will be the biggest Thanksgiving family gathering in years, a great chance to see some elderly relatives before they ...
Johny Joe Hold (25-11-2020 07:29 PM): The True Meaning of Thanksgiving is religious. It is a religious celebration, not secular. The Pilgrims first started is as a way the bring Indians to Jesus. They enticed the Indians with food. The ...
Isabella White (25-11-2020 10:30 PM): Oh, my word, yes, dear Sister Basilissa. I knew I would be so busy with baking today that we decided to postpone this week's McGill Street Ladies' Wednesday Afternoon Prayer Meeting, Bible Study and Tea ...
Johny Joe Hold (26-11-2020 03:48 PM): I just read an account of the first Thanksgiving. I have to say it was really disappointing. It was disappointing because the Wampanoags crashed the celebration. Can you imagine how upsetting it was ...
Alex112 (11-12-2020 11:13 PM): Are you guys planning a HUGE Thanksgiving dinner for tomorrow??? I certainly am, it will be the biggest Thanksgiving family gathering in years, a great chance to see some elderly relatives before they ...
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