Serve the Lord with gladness, come before His presence with singing.

Know ye that the Lord He is God.

It is He that hath made us, and we are His, His people, and the flock of His pasture.

Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise.

Give thanks unto Him, and bless His name.

For the Lord is good, His mercy in yourth forever, and His faithfulness unto all generations.

Happy Thanksgiving!

If you can believe it, it is once again that time of year, time for the young heretics.

Thanksgiving special is also, of course, time for actual Thanksgiving.

One of our most maligned holidays.

Last year, when we did our Thanksgiving special, I talked all about why Thanksgiving is so hateful to our new cultural trend setters,

to what is sometimes called the cathedral, or the cultural and political people who run our most powerful institutions.

If you want to hear my take on all of that, if you want to go back to last year's episode, you'll hear what I believe to be the real story of how the pilgrims,

which is to say a group of separatists who were reformers of the Anglican Church broke off in the Church of England,

traveled first to Liden in the Netherlands, and then on to the New World to set up what they believed was going to be basically the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth,

small part of it. They wanted to live their lives the way they wanted to live them, or more specifically, they didn't want to just do anything at all.

They wanted to act out, live out their faith as they believed it to be.

They were hardcore Protestants, their enemies called them Puritans, which of course was a sort of pejorative that was used at this time for people that wanted to strip the church of its kind of later additions, its ritual, its ceremony, its pomp and circumstance,

and just get back down to basics back to the way that early Christian church lived. So the Puritans, or rather the pilgrims who were separatists, wanted to live that belief out.

They couldn't do it under King James in England. They suffered persecution, which we're going to talk about. And then they went an incredibly difficult voyage to the New World, where they happened upon in Plymouth, that their plantation, they happened upon a fellow named Squanto.

And they called him Squanto, or Tisquantum was his real name. And Tisquantum was serving as an interpreter for Massa Soiet, the chief of another tribe.

Squanto had been sold into slavery. He'd made his way back. He was liberated by Catholic priests, made his way back to the New World, and emerged, basically, out of the woods, like some miracle to guide the pilgrims through their very, very difficult winter.

...