Welcome to The Wall Builder Show.

I am joined today by a good friend, a hero in some of the truth-telling of American history

movement.

Our friend Bill Federer, Bill, thanks for being on with us today.

Hey, Tim, great to be with you.

Okay, now, one of the things we want to talk about, we're coming into Thanksgiving.

So obviously the Pilgrims, but you have a book, The Treacherous World of the 16th Century

and how the Pilgrims escaped it, the prequel to America's freedom.

And obviously, as you are getting into the details of the pilgrims and explaining so much,

we thought, man, Bill, we would love to have you on.

Obviously, promote your book a little bit.

But tell us some of the stories.

What should people know about the pilgrims?

As we get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving this week?

What is some of the background? What should we know? What should we be thinking about coming into the Thanksgiving? Yeah, well, big picture, the Muslims are invading Europe and conquered Constance at Opel in

1453. And that's why Columbus set sail in 1492 to look for a land route to India, China.

And then 1517, Martin Luther starts the Reformation.

And you have in England, the king Henry VIII breaks away, but he establishes the Anglican

church as the official church.

And so you have Presbyterians and Quakers and Baptists that are not following the Anglican Church.

And so they're called dissenters. And the king didn't like that. And so there was this star chamber.

This is where they would arrest the Baptist, Thomas Hellwise, John Merton, John Smith,

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