Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. Someone asked me yesterday or two days ago,

so what are you doing for Thanksgiving? And I said, oh, I don't know. What are you, like,

what are you doing for the 4th of July? Thanksgiving? It's like forever away. What are you talking about?

It's a week away. Like, oh, what? Oh, I have no idea. Jeez. So, I say that here because in the

next couple days, our episodes, we will have a celebration of the Puritans and our pilgrims. My favorite

people. Oh, love the pilgrims. I can't speak enough about the pilgrims. They're the best.

They're just the best. And I will prove it over the next few days when we do a humble attempt

to celebrate these amazing people.

This is our heritage.

These pilgrims are our heritage.

It is a crime, purposeful, to disconnect us from these people who founded this country.

These are our true founders.

We talk about our founding fathers.

These are our founding grandfathers.

They did incredible things and for all the right reason.

So we'll talk about them in the days to come. I want to share this here, including the preacher, the main preacher of the church, these Puritans, because the Puritans, they started in England, of course, but then they went to Amsterdam for 12 years. And things didn't go well there. We'll talk about why next time. and when they went to England,

or when that was,

excuse me,

to New England,

there was a sermon that, and things didn't go well there. We'll talk about why next time. And when they went to England,

or when they went to New England,

there was a sermon that the preacher gave from the boat

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