First NATIONAL Days of Thanksgiving- Proclamations from colonial to Presidents Washington, Jefferson

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Radio. Well, hello and welcome. This is Bill Martinez and we are

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live, Happy Thanksgiving to you.
We're going to be remembering the first national

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days of Thanksgiving proclamations from colonial to
to Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Madison,

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Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Moore with
Bill Fetter, my good friend, the

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American Minute creator, nationally known speaker, best author, President of americ Search,

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Inc. Helping us to remember the
first national celebration of a holiday that

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started back on October the third of
seventeen eighty nine, when George Washington issued

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his Thanksgiving Proclamation designating for the people
of the United States a day of public

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Thanksgiving to be held on Thursday,
the twenty sixth day of November seventeen eighty

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nine. This marked the first national
celebration of a holiday that has become commonplace

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in today's household. Bill Fetter,
welcome the show. Good to have you

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with us. It's great to be
with you. Well, Bill, on

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this, you know, going back
when it all began, George Washington not

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only said he was reserving this day
for America, but for all nations.

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And it's interesting, all these years
later, America, i guess, is

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still the only nation that sets a
day aside for Thanksgiving. Well, it

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is a reflection on the strong faith
of the founders of the country. So

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one of the things I did was
read through all the colonial charters, then

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all the state constitutions, and I
found something interesting that in the colonies,

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when things were bad, they would
have days of prayer. When things were

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real bad, they would have days
of fasting and prayer. And when things

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turned around, they would have days
of thanksgiving. So it was this relationship

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with God that he was involved in
our day to day affairs. One time

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there was a famine and some they
have a day of fasting, and so

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a ship pulls in the harbor feel
full of food, and they canceled the

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day of fasting and they have a
day of Thanksgiving. And even Ben Franklin

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talked about that when he was in
his autobiography talking about the Pilgrims and how

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they would have their days of fasting, but then they had the idea of

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a day of Thanksgiving. Most of
the colonies would have the day of fasting

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on Good Friday, but sometimes it
was up to the discretion. One interesting

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one was during a threatned war with
France, Ben Franklin proposed a day of

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prayer and fasting and he published it
in his Pennsylvania Gazette. And then after

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we had the victory, right then
there was the Thanksgiving. And during the

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Revolutionary War there were multiple times of
days of prayer and Thanksgiving. And if

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you want, I can get into
some of those. You know, we've

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got We've got some time, I
mean, because I mean the whole idea,

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this spirit of gratitude and thanksgiving is
something that maybe has been lost in

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translation over the years. We haven't
really emphasized it enough, but we should

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appreciate and embrace the fact that it's
part of our DNA, it's our birthright.

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It's what we have done as an
natural outpouring, you know, and

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gratefulness to God as a result of
our faith and our belief in Him.

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And when we appreciate the beneficence of
God Almighty so much, the natural reaction

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is to say thanks. It's kind
of like, you know, Bill,

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It's like when we have an everyday
humanoid do a kind thing to us,

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what is our first natural reaction but
to say thanks, right, right,

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and being grateful, right, you
know. I In getting into the Revolutionary

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War era, there was Thomas Jefferson, and he was Governor of Virginia.

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And he writes, composes, and
introduces, and it passes in the Virginia

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Assembly a day of fasting for Virginia
to be observed on the very day that

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the British were beginning their blockade of
Boston Harbor. And so Jefferson writes,

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with apprehension from the hostile invasion of
the city of Boston, whose commerce and

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harbor are to be stopped by an
armed force, we deem it highly necessary

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that the said first day of June
be set apart by the members of this

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House as a day of fasting,
humiliation, in prayer, devoutly to implore

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divine interposition, and that was Jefferson. And then during the Revolutionary War,

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the Declaration is proclaimed on July fourth, seventeen seventy six, and then you

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have the British and the Battle of
Saratoga and we miraculously capture six thousand British

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troops General Johnny Burgoyne. So the
Continental Congress has what's considered the first national

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Day of Thanksgiving. So different colonies
did it, but this is the first

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national one after the Declaration November one, seventeen seventy seven. It's the Congress

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rites, the grateful feeling of their
hearts, joined the penitent confession of their

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manifold sins, that it may please
God, through the merits of Jesus Christ,

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mercifully to forgive and blot them out, and under the providence of Almighty

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God, secure for these United States
the greatest of all human blessings, independence

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and peace. The first national Day
of Thanksgiving after the Declaration and it mentions

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through the merits of Jesus Christ.
They were pretty outspoken. Yeah, exactly.

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Yeah, there was no debate about
it. I mean, this was

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their belief, this was their worldview, and they saw the beneficence of God

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time and time again, and knew
it was only because the shed blood of

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Jesus that they could even have any
kind of hope or faith of God's answer

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to their prayers. Right, Bill, Right. And so another is John

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Paul Jones, and he commanded the
Bottom Richard, and he captured the British

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ship Hms Serrapus, And everyone knows
this because they entangle in their firing shots

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at each other, and their ships
are lashed together so that the one,

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the Bottom Richard, is so full
of holes it would probably sin. But

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the British commander yells out to John
Paul Jones, are you ready to surrender?

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And John Paul Jones yells back,
says, we've not yet begun to

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fight. And they fight for two
more hours than they win. So the

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Continental Congress declares a day of Thanksgiving. And Thomas Jefferson is the Governor of

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Virginia, and he, in accordance
with this, gives the proclamation November eleventh,

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seventeen seventy nine. Congress have thought
proper to recommend to the several States

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a day of public and solemn thanksgiving
to Almighty God his mercies, and of

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prayer for that continuance of his favor, that he would go forth with our

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hosts and crown our arms with victory. And he goes on that he would

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grant his church the plentiful effusions of
his divine grace, pour out his Holy

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Spirit on all ministers of the Gospel, that he would bless and prosper the

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means of education, and spread the
light of Christian knowledge the remotest corners of

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the earth. I do therefore issue
this proclamation, and he signs it,

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given under my hand the eleventh day
of November, in the year of our

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Lord's seventeen seventy nine, Thomas Jefferson. So that was another day of thanksgiving

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that the Continental Congress recognized. But
Jefferson is the governor of Virginia recognized.

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And the thing that's amazing, you
know, as you recount this bill,

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I mean, these are the early
days of our founding and development of this

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country, and how there was a
consistent connection and knowledgement of God Almighty.

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Yeah, and you think, and
you go, what happened? How did

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we lose that? And I'm sure
there's probably you know, Jews who probably

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say the same thing, how did
we lose this? What happened? You

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know? We just forgot and took
things for granted, and you know,

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the human spirit and condition, you
know, came into play here. And

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just like the children of Israel,
we see things according to our own eyes

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and make our own choices and decisions
without God, and we do so at

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our own peril. Yeah, you're
exactly right. And I traced that progression

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through one of my books called Backfired, where it goes through the different Each

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colony was started by a different denomination. Virginia was Anglican, Massachusetts was Puritan,

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Rhode Island was Baptist, New York
was Dutch Reformed, where New Jersey

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were originally Swedish. Lutheran, Connecticut
and New Hampshire Congregationalist, Maryland Catholic,

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Pennsylvania Quaker. And they didn't get
along, and they would tar and feather

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each other, but then they had
to work together against the King of England.

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After the Revolution, they're being to
tolerate each other, and then they

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ninety eight percent of the country was
Protestant, one percent Catholic, tenth of

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a percent Jewish, and then there's
an Irish potato famine and millions of Irish

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Catholics come to America, and then
they broad in and tolerate Catholics. Then

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there's a persecution of Jews in Bavaria, about a quarter of a million Jews

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come across, and they brought in
to tolerate Jews. And then after the

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Civil War they changed constitutions to just
say believe in God. And then you

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had all the way up until really
the Vietnam War, and some draft dodgers

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wanted to claim religious conscientious objector status
as atheists, and the Supreme Court said,

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well, we have new religions which
do not acknowledge the Supreme Being.

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Among them are secular humanism, and
so now secular humanism is tolerated, and

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then finally atheism, and then Sharia
Islam, and those that are anti Christian.

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And so, if the title of
the book is backfired, a nation

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founded on religious tolerance no longer tolerates
the religion of its founders. But I

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wanted to share another one would Benedict
Arnold was going to betray West Point,

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which was our biggest military base in
America, and he was going to betray

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it. On the very day George
Washington was coming to inspect West Point,

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and the plot was discovered and Washington
was saved and the country was saved.

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And so the Continental Congress has a
day of Thanksgiving October eighteenth, seventeen eighty

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It says, in the late remarkable
interposition of His watchful providence in the rescuing

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the person of our Commander in Chief
and army from imminent dangers at the moment

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when treason was ripened for execution.
It is therefore recommended a day of public

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thanksgiving in prayer to confess our unworthiness
and to offer fervent supplications to the God

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of all Grace, to cause the
knowledge of Christianity to spread over all the

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earth. I just think it's sort
of telling here they are thanking God.

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West Point wasn't captured, thanking God. George Washington captured. Oh, and

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we want to thank God that the
knowledge of Christianity spreads all over the earth.

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And then you finally have the British
General Cornwallace surrendering at the Battle of

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Yorktown. And so there's another day
of Thanksgiving issued by the Continental Congress October

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eleventh, seventeen eighty two. It
says, it being the indispensable duty of

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all nations to offer up their supplications, So Almighty God, the United States

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in Congress assembled, do hereby recommend
to the inhabitants of these states in general,

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to observe the last day of Thursday, November next as a day of

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solemn thanksgiving to God for all his
mercies. Then there's Paris, which ends

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well, and the thing is built. Excuse me for just interjecting her just

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a moment. Again, Keep in
mind, this was so real to these

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men in the early because the odds
were against them, were they not.

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I mean, they're fighting the number
one world power, army, military force,

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and the on the planet and uh, and they're defeating him, and

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they have to realize that it's only
by God's grace and mercy that they're winning.

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Right, So you have the the
British control all of India, a

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quarter of the world's population. They
control Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong,

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based going on in Canada, Barbados, Bermuda, Jamaica. I mean,

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just an enormous The sun never set
on the British Empire. Right.

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We don't have an army, we
don't have a navy, and we're going

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to break away from this empire and
we throw together our ragtag army and navy

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and could you imagine the political debates
at the time over that you're gonna what?

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Yeah, And so Ben Franklin is
one of the persons negotiating the Treaty

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of Paris, which officially ends the
Revolutionary War. The Treaty of Paris starts

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off in the name of the Most
Holy and Undivided Trinity. And so Continental

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Congress has a day of thanksgiving to
celebrate the war is finally over. And

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so John Hancock at this time is
now Governor of Massachusetts, and he had

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previously been the President of the Continental
Congress. So he declares a day of

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Thanksgiving in November eighth, seventeen eighty
three, less than a month after the

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Treaty of Paris. And John Hancock
says, the citizens of these United States

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have every reason to praise and gratitude
to the God of their salvation. I

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do appoint the eleventh day December next
to be recommended by the Congress of the

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States, to be religiously observed as
a day of thanksgiving in prayer to all

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the people assemble and celebrate that He
is pleased to continue to us the light

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of the blessed Gospel. That we
also offer fervent supplications to cause pure religion

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and virtue to flourish, to fill
the world with His glory. So that's

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John Hancock having the Day of Thanksgiving
on the date recommended by the Congress.

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And then the Bill of Rights are
passed in seventeen ninety one and George Washington

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decides to have a day of Thanksgiving
October third of seventeen eighty nine. And

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this is significant because this is the
same week that the First Amendment is passed,

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as well as the first ten Amendments, and so the same week they

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passed the First Amendment, Congress asks
Washington to have a day of thanksgiving to

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God. Obviously they did not think
the First Amendment was to keep God out

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of government, right exactly. So
here's what George Washington, right. And

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the thing that impressed me, Bill
if I might say, is that here

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it is interesting, as you say, and you bring up the point that

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how this is in terms of the
timeline. Here we get the Bill of

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Rights that has passed, and they
are embarking on the documentation beyond the Declaration

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of Independence, here's our constitution,
here's how the government is going to going

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to work. And they have got
to just feel like, I mean,

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this stuff is brilliant. I mean
it's beyond brilliant. It's beyond human capacity,

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the things that are being written here. I got to believe that they

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had to They had to think that. I don't think in there in any

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kind of arrogance. Could they think, Oh, you know, I'm such

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a great writer and a great creer
of governments that I've come up with this

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idea all by myself. Right,
Yeah, So I like to zoom out

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and look at the big picture.
And writing was invented around three or four

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thousand BC. Even Neil de Grasi
Tyson, the astrophysicist in his Cosmos TV

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series, stood in one episode,
stood in this desert, and he said,

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it was here between the tigers and
euphrates rivers, five thousand years ago

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that we learned how to write.
And so five thousand years ago would have

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been around three thousand or so BC. He talks about this as being significant

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because now you can have an accumulation
of human knowledge. So it's not just

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what you can learn in one lifetime
and then you die. No, now

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you can write it down and the
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off exactly, and you have that
gradual accumulating of human knowledge. And that's

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his episode there. Well, even
in the present time bill, when you're

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writing something down, you get people
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all of a sudden, people are
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thoughts and ideas coming together. Oh
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of speech. When you have that, you know, protecting that ability to

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do that. Wow, our knowledge
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it does. And so now that
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five thousand or so years of records
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them are court records, and only
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percent of Egypt was literate, just
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class. And they had three thousand
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intentionally because it meant that they had
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class to interpret them. Right,
had ten thousand characters. In Samaria had

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about fifteen hundred characters, which highlights. When Moses came down the mountain,

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he had the law in a twenty
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kids to learn it. So ancient
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and they are ways to limit the
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way that you limit a king is
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with Darius write in the Book of
Daniel where they say, hey, nobody

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can pray to you for thirty days, okay, and he signs it,

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and then they say we caught Daniel. He was praying. You got to

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throw him in the lions then,
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says the king spent all day trying
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he couldn't, and the mayor God
delivered you. So here the king was

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limited by the king's own words,
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the letter where Cyrus said you go
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honored the past king's words. So
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and traditions and the limiting effect.
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in the pagan cultures, these kings
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needed a religious class to sort of
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yes, they're divinely appointed. And
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right of kings and the pope crown
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a limiting effect on the king's arbitrary
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and so he had guys collecting taxes, and he would allow them to

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have horses and weapons so they could
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have a nice strong house so they
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to him. And these guys got
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didn't like one of them, like
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would just arbitrarily get rid of one
and replace him. Yeah, it's twenty

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five barons. One day asked the
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up on the fields of running meat, and he thought it was just going

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to be them, but it's them
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his way back to his castle and
they say, we want you to sign

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this magna carta limiting the arbitrary power
of a king. But finally America comes

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along and we're like, why bother
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one right, make the people the
king. So we talked about the Founders,

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we talk about the Congress, we
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It literally in an all of recorded
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you could have millions of people ruling
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they had a day of Thanksgiving after
the Bill of Rights were passed October third,

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seventeen eighty nine. It says,
whereas it is the duty of all

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nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty
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to obey his will, be grateful
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Whereas both Houses of Congress have,
by their joint committee, requested that the

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people of the United States have a
day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be

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observed by knowledge and grateful hearts.
The signal favors to Almighty God, especially

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by affording them an opportunity peaceably to
establish a form of government for their safety

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and happiness. Now, therefore,
I Washington recommend Thursday the twenty sixth November

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be devoted to the people the United
States, a service to the great and

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glorious Being, who is the beneficent
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that is, or that will be, And that we may all unite in

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rendering unto Him our sincere and humble
thanks for which the peaceable and rational manner

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in which we have been able to
establish constitutions of government, particularly the national

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one now lately instituted. So here
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the Bill of Right. And among
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And obviously the first Amendment was not
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Congress that passed it asking Washington to
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Yeah, how does that square up
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The interesting thing also, I you
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proclamation of the first Thanksgiving here safety
and happiness really sticks out that it is

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the duty of government to ensure the
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people might want to stop for a
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current government institutions. Yeah, and
when you wrote a book on the history

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of socialism. The book is titled
Socialism the Real History from Plato to the

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Present, and I talk about how
socialism is basically a dictatorship. Every socialist

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country has a dictator. Right the
USSR AS Union of Soviet Socialist Republics say

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they had a dictator stolen NAZI stands
for National Socialist Workers Party, It had

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a dictator Hitler. And socialist countries
are dictatorships. And how do you get

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people to give up their rights and
freedoms to a dictator. You have to

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get them insecure. You have to
create a crisis. You have to create

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a panic, you have to have
crime go up, you have to have

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them feeling threatens and then they panic
and will surrender their freedom. So that's

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why a lot of people are concerned
that it seems that one particular political party

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wants crime to go up in the
cities. Let the criminals out of jail.

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Have you prosecutors that don't prosecute the
criminals and exactly care more about the

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criminals and the victims of their crimes, And then you let the legals in

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and a lot of the our gang
members. Other countries are emptying their prisons

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of their most exactly prisoners and letting
them come across the border. Why because

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if crime goes up, people will
panic and will beg the government to come

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in and restore order. And the
government will come in. They'll restore order,

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all right, but they'll flip it
from a bottom up form of government

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at the expense of your freedom and
liberty. You know. It is a

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quite amazing bill and not surprising though
at the same time that America has been

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a thorn in the sides, in
the very hearts of those oligarchs and those

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communist dictators, because we are in
the face of their leadership. We're showing

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the world that there is a better
way, and that threatens them, doesn't

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it. It does now we did
at the beginning of our country had a

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threatening situation. It's called the Whiskey
Rebellion. In Pennsylvania Pittsburgh. The people

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would have their corn, and by
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to the ports, the taxes between
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states, and so then they would
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this whisky rebellion George Washington was the
only president to actually be on a horse

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and lead the army as commander in
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gets to Pittsburgh, the Whiskey Rebellion
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He forgives the people and lets him
go home. Where every other dictator

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in history would have killed anybody exactly, there'd have been heads lopped off exactly.

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And then Washington has a National Day
of Thanksgiving September twenty fifth, seventeen

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ninety four, and I could read
it, but it's similar to the other

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ones. And then on January first, seventeen ninety five, he has an

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other Day of Thanksgiving, and he
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isn't he. That's what we're getting
from all this history is that we had

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a president that was very thankful to
God, you know, repeatedly. Yeah,

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when I read through his orders while
he was general, and he would

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always after every battle, thank God
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And then we have the War of
eighteen twelve. It ends and the Congress

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passes a National Day of Thanksgiving March
fourth, eighteen fifteen. The Senate and

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House of Representatives signify their desire that
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of the United States with religious solemnity, a day of thanksgiving and of devout

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acknowledgments to Almighty God. Then you
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have the first annual day of Thanksgiving. Prior to that it was on an

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as needed basis, right, but
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midst of the Civil War of unequal
magnitude and severity. I therefore invite my

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fellow citizens in every part of the
United States, and also those who are

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in sea and so journeying in foreign
lands, set apart the last Thursday of

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November next as a day of thanksgiving
and praise to our beneficent Father, who

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dwelleth in heaven. And I recommend
also that, with humble penitence for our

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national perverseness and disobedience, commend to
his tender care of all those who have

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become widows and orphans and mourners,
are sufferers, and fervently implore the interposition

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of the Almighty handy healed the wounds
of the nation, so and so forth.

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And that's Abraham Lincoln. You know, Bill, you know the thing

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as you are going through all this
it, as we said earlier, this

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all the more reminds us of not
a separation of God state, but a

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reliance on God for state. Does
that make sense? Yeah? Yeah,

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So this idea that there should be
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founding fathers would never you know,
based on their testimony and their prayers,

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they would never ever conceive of such
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you know, a heretical individual,
you know, to try and tear apart

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the institution and our reliance on God
himself. And of course this was happening.

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Ever so suddenly as they say,
and you will get you will get

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to this. And that is the
you know, they say, the slow

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and deliberate progressive march through the institutions
by the socialists. Yeah. Yeah,

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A big check step happened when you
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Unitarians. This is what's called a
pl political religion, where prior to

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our independence, if you were to
be a leader in America, all you

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needed was the favor of the king. Now that we're a country where people

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vote, you need the favor of
the people. And so politicians would with

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each state jealously holding onto their particular
doctrines. The politicians would say things that

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were the most generally accepted. So
it was sort of like political rhetoric is

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the lowest common denominator. You want
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things that everybody held in common,

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the majority of the people, and
so here where they're mentioning Christianity to them,

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that was the accepted views of everybody, you know. So the time

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of the founding, ninety eight percent
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a tenth of a percent Jewish.
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the early eighteen hundreds, the Catholic
percentage went from one percent to twenty percent

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in just a decade. There was
a backlash and then it settled down,

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and then there was a persecution of
Jews in Bavaria. A quarter of a

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million Jews come across. They go
from a tenth of a percent to one

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percent and then eventually to two percent
of the population. But then there was

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a cholera epidemic eighteen forty nine and
the president Zachary Taylor has a day of

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fasting in prayer. And then there's
another potential of the global cholera epidemic,

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and we were spared. And President
Grover Cleveland has a day of Thanksgiving November

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one, eighteen eighty eight. He
mentions that he goes on that day,

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let all our people suspend their ordinary
work and occupations, and in their accustomed

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places of worship, with prayer and
songs in praise, render thanks to God

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for all his mercies, and be
mindful of the afflictive dispensations which are a

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portion of our land have been visited
with this epidemic, while we humble ourselves

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before the power of God acknowledges mercies
in setting bounds to the deadly march of

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the pestilence. So that was Grover
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And on the one hundredth anniversary of
Washington's inauguration, he has a day

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of Thanksgiving April fourth, eighteen eighty
nine, and he says, George Washington

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took the oath of office as Chief
Magistrate of the newborn Republic. The impresent

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Act was preceded at nine o'clock in
the morning in all the churches of the

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city by prayer for God's blessing on
the government and its first president, in

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order that the joy of the occasion
may be associated with a deep thankfulness in

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the minds of the people for all
the blessings in the past, a devout

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supplication for their gracious continues in the
future. The representatives of the religious creeds,

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both Christian and Hebrew, have memorialized
the government to designate an hour of

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prayer and Thanksgiving on that day.
So he's been really inclusive, exactly,

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Benjamin Harriston, He's like, okay, everybody, both Christian and Hebrew.

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That's the whole country Christian exactly,
all God, all God's chilling, all

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hands on deck. You know.
It was interesting, you know too,

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just to rewind for just a moment. You know, here we get the

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attack of cholera, and you get
a day of prayer and Thanksgiving. You

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know. Unfortunately, after the most
recent pandemic here in our country, COVID,

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I didn't I didn't hear a national
day of prayer and Thanksgiving, you

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know, post the pandemic. By
comparison, No, you're right. I

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actually was working with some people and
they were putting together a list of all

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the days of prayer and fasting,
and they staffers around President Trump said,

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oh, no, this is too
much. Let's let's set it aside.

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Let's water it down, Let's do
this or that, because basically you had

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rhinos that had infiltrated the government and
they wanted to water this stuff down.

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But I agree with you that we
did not have that return of gratefulness to

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God. Even when the nine to
eleven happened. George W. Bush had

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a day of prayer and remembrance.
Yes, remembrance. Okay, you know,

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how's that that's not repentance. Previously
it would have been prayer and repentance

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even during that War One, because
because they didn't see nine to eleven,

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just like the children of Israel did
not see the attack on their nation as

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a judgment from God. They defiantly
responded that it was of their own strength

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and their resources, that if they
would only do a little bit better job

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in all these areas of national security
without God, then we'd be okay.

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Yeah. You know, there's the
Deuteronomy twenty eight passage and the Blessings and

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Curses. It says thou shall hearken
diligent to lead to the voice of the

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Lord, to observe through all his
commandments. All these blessings will come upon

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the and overtake thee that will be
blessed, coming in, blessed coming out.

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You'll be the head and not the
tail. Right, you'll lend them

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any nations, and you shall not
have to borrow. And you know,

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one of you will put a thousand
of enemy to flight. But it says

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if you do not hearken to the
voice of the Lord, these curses will

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come upon you and overtake you.
Exactly. The enemy will come in and

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rise up above you, and they
will be the head, and you'll be

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the tail, and you'll be a
debtor. And lo and behold, America

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is the most indebt nation in the
history of the world. Just financially.

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We're on the judgement side of the
page. And then you see the stranger

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coming in amongst you. So here
they're diverting money from the veterans to take

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care of legal immigrants. It's like, okay, and then we're borrowing.

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Rand Paul was even saying, Okay, all the money we're giving Ukraine,

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we are borrowing from China. Exactly. We don't have a pot of money

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that we're borrowing from right, we're
inflating our currency and we're playing all these

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financial games, but we're borrowing the
money that we're lending to Ukraine, and

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unfortunately they can't borrow any more money
from ourselves of security. They've kind of

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left that empty, you know,
pretty much. Imagine if they gave all

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the money they gave the Ukraine to
all the American citizens exactly. I mean,

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it would be like millions of dollars
per person. We would get it's

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like man, oh man. But
instead we're giving it over there and we

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find out now that a lot of
it's going to uh, it's money laundry

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exactly. Well, and that's what
Ukraine does. Did you expect them to

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do anything different? They are They
are money laundering headquarters. They've been that

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way for decades. That's that's how
they think, and that's their model.

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You can't expect them to do anything
different. Yeah. I was amazed when

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Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State and
the US was giving aid to Ukraine.

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Ukraine is the poorest country in Europe. But guess which country was the number

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one country giving money to the Clinton
Foundation? Ukraine? Ukraine worist country given

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the most amount of money. Where
are they getting the money of from the

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aid that Hillary send us right quit
pro quo is what that's called, Nancy

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Pelosi. Huh yeah. I was
even shocked by the headlines where Zelenski took

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the billions he got from the United
States and gave it to Larry Fink with

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black Rock for safekeep all right to
take to account of it for him.

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It's like black Rock. They're the
number one World Economic Forum group that wants

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a one world government. So ere
exactly, but anyway. William McKinley was

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the twenty fifth president and Teddy Roosevelt
was his vice president, and he has

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a national Day of Thanksgiving October twenty
ninth, nineteen hundred. This was after

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the city at Galveston had suffered a
hurricane and the country responded with charity,

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and so McKinley says, the works
of religion and charity have everywhere been manifest.

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We have been generally exempt from the
pestilence and other great calamities, and

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even the tragic visitation which overwhelmed the
city of Galveston made evident the sentiments of

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the sympathy and Christian charity by virtue
which we are one united people now Therefore,

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I William McKinley, President of the
United States, to a point instead

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of part Thursday the twenty ninth,
to be observed by the people in the

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United States as to day of Thanksgiving
and praise to him who holds the nations

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in the hollow of his hand,
that they humbly pray for continuance of divine

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favor, so and so forth.
So that was William McKinley. And then

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there's Teddy Roosevelt after that. If
you want to share a little on that,

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Yeah, let's go. We got
about ten minutes left. So Theodore

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Roosevelt, he's the one who has
the charge down in San Juan Hill,

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Cuba and helps Cuba become independent from
Spain. And then he is the twenty

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sixth president, and he has a
day of Thanksgiving October twenty fourth, nineteen

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three, and he says, during
the last year, the Lord has dealt

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bountifully with us. It behooves us
not only to rejoice because of what has

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been given us, but to accept
it with solemn sense of responsibility, realizing

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that under Heaven it rests with us
ourselves, to show that we are worthy

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of to use or arte what he
has. Thus been entrusted to our care.

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In no other place, and in
no other time has the experiment of

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government of the people, by the
people and for the people been tried on

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so vast a scale as here in
our own country in the opening of the

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twentieth century. Failure would not only
be dreadful thing for us, but a

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dreadful thing for all of mankind,
because we mean the loss of hope for

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all those who believe in the power
to act in righteousness of liberty. Therefore,

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thanking God for the mercies extended to
us in the past, we beseech

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him that he may not withhold him
in the future. And so that was

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Teddy Roosevelt. Now again we talked
about the King of England at the beginning,

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and the most powerful empire in the
world. You had democracies like in

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Athens, but every citizen had to
be at every meeting every day to talk

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about every issue. So democracies could
only get as large as a city,

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so they call them city states.
Now republics could get larger because you could

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take care of your family and your
farm and have someone in your place that

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goes to the market every day and
talks politics. They are your representative.

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So you had the Roman Republic.
But here Teddy Roosevelt is saying that we're

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even bigger than the Roman Republic.
Right, we've stretched. And he says,

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in no other place, and at
no other time has the experiment of

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government of the people, by the
people, and for the people, and

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try on so fast a scale.
But he says, failure would be a

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dreadful thing, not just for us, but a dreadful thing for all mankind,

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because it would mean a loss of
hope. What's he talking about?

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Because for six thousand years people have
suffered under the thumbs of pharos and Caesars

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and kayjers, insultants and cons and
your worth was only dependent on how well

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you could serve the guy at the
top. And if you weren't serving him,

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or you were challenging him, well
you're stripped of your rights and you're

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put in the Tower of London or
your birth at the steak and you can't

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even believe what you have to believe
what the king tells you to believe.

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I mean, it's total. And
so for six thousand years people have suffered,

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and they thought, if only we
could rule ourselves without a king,

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wouldn't that be wonderful, and in
America we did it, and if we

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blow it, there's nothing left for
humanity to look forward to this side of

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heaven. Then what dictators Chinese dictators
even Biden called jezing pingadicators, dictators,

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Qush dictators, North Korean dictators,
Irenian Iatola dictators. It's going to be

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a gang war on a global scale
with the most up to date weapons and

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tracking technology, and human rights are
going to be crushed exactly and there'll be

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no coming back out of it.
And so this is a thing that we

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want to take is and we want
to hang on to this great country that

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the Good Lord has entrusted us with. Yeah. Amen, Well, Bill

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Feeder, you know, in going
through this timeline, this is so important

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and it blesses us, you know, for people to realize because this is

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stuff they probably haven't Yeah, I
can guarantee you the kids in school are

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not getting this kind of information and
maybe for some of us who did when

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we went to school. It's been
a while, but it is amazing to

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look at the timeline and say,
you know, here we are nineteen oh

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three and probably up and including World
War Two, we were still a Christian

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nation. We still held to a
biblical worldview, but it seems that shortly

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after World War Two, we just
embraced this, you know, secularist worldview,

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and we really had a culture clash. And it happens so quickly when

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you think about it. Yeah,
it did. Now. During World War

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two, Eanklin Roosevelt gave out Gideon's
New Testaments and book assalms to all the

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soldiers, millions of blue ones to
the navy, brown once to the army,

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and then right at the beginning,
he had a National Bible Week in

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nineteen forty one, and since then, every session of Congress has designated Thanksgiving

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Week as National Bible Week. Matter
of fact, Representative Mike Johnson on c

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SPAN, he says, recognizing the
seventy seventh annual National Bible Week in America,

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this is a declaration first made by
Franklin D. Roosevelt just weeks before

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the start of World War Two.
But after World War Two, you had

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Russia, and they had a debate
whether communism should just rule Russia or rule

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the world and rule the world ones
one out, and so they would send

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KGB agents into these brand new countries
that survived World War two and they would

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do critical theory, which all it
is is observing all the groups in a

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country religiously, socially, economically,
and you call some victims and others oppressors,

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haves and have nots exactly, pit
them into riots and protests, and

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then you co opt the media with
bribes and threats to blame the new leader

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of the new country for all of
the problems. And when the public opinion

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turned against the new leader, then
you would do a coup or rigged election

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and replace the leader with a Soviet
puppet. Wow, and country after country

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after country fell. Truman does nothing, and then Eisenhower's the next president,

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and he decides to fight fire with
fire, and he has Alan Dulles as

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the head of the CIA, And
when the Iran begins to side with the

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Soviet Union, he sends over Kermit
Roosevelt Junior, and he does the KGV

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thing in reverse. He recruits mobsters
and gangsters and radical e moms and they

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hit violence and protests and co opts
the media to blame Mazedek for all the

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problems. And when the public opinion
turned against him, they put him under

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house arrest and replaced him with the
Shaw who loved America because we help put

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him in until Jimmy Carter, the
show exactly exactly let the Iotola take over

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and push radical Islam, and the
Iatola founded Hesboala. And now we have

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to thank Jimmy Carter for all these
missiles being fired at Israel. Of course

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we can thank Biden and Obama too
for releasing Yeah, there's plenty, there's

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plenty of blame to go around there. Hey, Bell, I want to

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go back to for just a moment. We've got about two and a half

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minutes remaining here. But in regard
to Russia, you know, Patten wanted

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to go in and invade Russia.
He was totally against any kind of alliance

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with Russia. And here we are, we accommodate Russia, and they they

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really bring in a contagion, a
political contagion that you know, as you

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as you spell this out, that
affected the world and ended up you know,

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affecting you know, the the the
values of this great American experiment.

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Yeah, and so Patton wanted to
go in, and there is still some

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mystery as to his car accident that
kills Patten. And because yes, he

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did wanted to go and then you
had General MacArthur, and he wanted to

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go into China and conquer it.
And after World War Two, China was

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really confused and you probably could have
conquered it, but instead Harry S.

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Truman said no, no, no, We're gonna let the United Nations take

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care of these international things. Well
guess what. The United Nations was formed

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with a communist guy right there in
the formation of it making sure that the

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Soviets had somebody on the National Security
Council, and I think his name was

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Alger Hisss was the person was later
outed by Whittaker Chambers as a Communist spy.

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But yeah, MacArthur wanted to go
in and take care of The President

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of the Republic of China, Jen
Kish converted and became a Methodist Christian,

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and he was like opening the doors
for China to become Christian. But again,

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we had people under the FDR's administration, a lot of socialists leaning people

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had infiltrated into his administration. Not
not much has changed, right, I

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mean, here we are today in
the modern era, and it's like we're

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in a cycle. You know,
wash Rent's repeat this is this is It

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seems like we're stuck here. But
I do think if we thank God,

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you know, if the devil were
all we're all powerful, we've all been

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dead a long time ago. He's
not. And Jesus says, wheat and

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terrors go together till the harvest.
Every generation as a crisis, and the

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crisis is a way of revealing what's
really in our hearts. And it's sort

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of like, you know, we're
the bride of Christ, and every romance

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novel and builds up to a crisis
moment where a person is faced with forsaking

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the all others and choosing the one. But guess what, some people are

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going to choose the all others.
But there's those the rest of us that

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are going to choose the One.
And all we care about is his approval

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from God, and so in Jesus, so this is a time for us

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to thank God for the many blessings. And we still the stories we love

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best in the Bible are what God's
people are in a hopeless situation. He

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raises up an eighty year old Moses
to stand against the most powerful military in

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the world, the Pharaoh. He
raises a teenager David to stand against this

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you know, huge monster Goliath,
right, and has one hundred thousand Midianites,

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and he gets thirty thousand Israelites,
and God said, too many.

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Tell everyone everyone that's scared to go
home, but three hundred. In other

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words, God made the odds even
worse, right, And so we have

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to remember that God is all powerful. He exists outside of time. And

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this human experiment is basically to let
uh sorting out of the sheep and the

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coat. Who wants to be with
Godd and who doesn't? Amen so well

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on this, on this Thanksgiving Day, we're reminded our Redeemer lives right.

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Bill Amen, Amen Amen. Bill, Bill Fetter, my dear friend,

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the American Minute creator, nationally known
speaker, and best selling author and president

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of Americsearch, Inc. Bill the
website they can go to to uh,

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you know, subscribe to the American
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the no and to receive your history
lessons on a weekly basis. Yeah.

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So it's Americanminute dot com. Americanminute
dot com. And one of the books

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that I talked about is called The
Treacherous World of the sixteenth Century and how

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the Pilgrims escaped it. And so
it goes through the first Thanksgiving that the

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pilgrims had but but American Minute dot
com. Thank you, Bill Well,

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Bill Fetter, thank you very much. Happy Thanksgiving to you, my friend.

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Happy Thanksgiving you and all the viewers
you got it our thanks to Bill

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Fetter, and thank you for sharing
a part of your Thanksgiving with us.

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To be a part of this mighty
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out Bill Martinez Show dot com.
May God bless you and keep you,

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May make his face shine upon you, may be gracious upon you and give

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you his peace. Thank you so
much for being with us. God bless

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Happy Thanksgiving everybody,