A Day of Thanks…….

A Very Happy Thanksgiving wish to all of the Tundra Tabloids’ American readers! *L* KGS

On December 4, 1619, a group of 38 English settlers arrived at Berkeley Hundred, comprised of about eight thousand acres (32 km²) on the north bank of the James River near Herring Creek in an area then known as Charles Cittie (sic) about 20 miles upstream from Jamestown, where the first permanent settlement of the Colony of Virginia was established on May 14, 1607.

The group’s charter required that the day of arrival be observed yearly as a “day of thanksgiving” to God. On that first day, Captain John Woodleaf held the service of thanksgiving. Here is the section of the Charter of Berkeley Hundred which specifies the thanksgiving service:

“Wee ordaine that the day of our ships arrival at the place assigned for plantacon in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually keept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty god.”

Note: From the comment section. Paul says:

“Today is Saturday November 24th, the day I will be sharing Thanksgiving with my family and friends here in Sweden.The story of the pilgrims is very interesting. A mixture of business and flight for freedom. Part of the original pilgrims were held up in Denmark until it was almost time to sail for the New World.

By chance and negotiation skills of the settlers they established good relations with the local indigenous population and were spared massacre, kidnapping and warfare. This was the exception rather than the rule. Thanksgiving is celebrated as a National holiday in two countries, The USA and Canada. IMHO it should be celebrated throughout the world. It is a time when we give thanks for being alive, for the food we have on our plates, the clothes on our backs and the family and friends we have in our company.

In the past I have camped in a tent on those same grounds as the first pilgrims. The gray stormy cold weather along the New England coast in late Autumn and Winter. Although I did not have to work the earth or slaughter my own food, I remember being thankful for a morning cup of coffee and some eggs cooked on a fire. Each of us want things to be better. Some of us are working very actively to bring this about. Regardless, each and everyone of us has so much. Take time out, close your eyes and give thanks for all that you have.

Happy Thanksgiving

Thanks Paul for writing that. *L* KGS

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By Paul Nov 24, 2007

Today is Saturday November 24th, the day I will be sharing Thanksgiving with my family and friends here in Sweden.

The story of the pilgrims is very interesting. A mixture of business and flight for freedom. Part of the original pilgrims were held up in Denmark until it was almost time to sail for the New World.

By chance and negotiation skills of the settlers they established good relations with the local indigenous population and were spared massacre, kidnapping and warfare. This was the exception rather than the rule.

Thanksgiving is celebrated as a National holiday in two countries, The USA and Canada. IMHO it should be celebrated throughout the world. It is a time when we give thanks for being alive, for the food we have on our plates, the clothes on our backs and the family and friends we have in our company.

In the past I have camped in a tent on those same grounds as the first pilgrims. The gray stormy cold weather along the New England coast in late Autumn and Winter. Although I did not have to work the earth or slaughter my own food, I remember being thankful for a morning cup of coffee and some eggs cooked on a fire.

Each of us want things to be better. Some of us are working very actively to bring this about. Regardless, each and everyone of us has so much. Take time out, close your eyes and give thanks for all that you have.

Happy Thanksgiving

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There’s No Common Cultural Legacy For The Alt-Right

Still, is there something to it? Is there a common heritage that will cover El Greco and Hume and Dostoyevsky? Is there one that can include the Jacobites and the Jacobins? There is, but it is not racial, and white supremacists reject it because it rejects them. The unifying heritage of Europe is religious and philosophical. It is Jerusalem and Athens, in one famous formulation. Christian religion and Greek philosophy, filtered through Roman law and culture, are the foundation of European culture. The tensions, agreements, developments and settlements between these have shaped the Western world, and these roots of Western civilization are not congenial to white supremacy.

Christianity is universal in its message and Jewish in its origins. For centuries after its founding, Christianity’s center was the Mediterranean world, including Asia Minor and North Africa. Christianity has never been defined by race, and locally-grown racist heresies are only sustainable among those ignorant of Christianity’s teachings, origins and history.

Greek philosophy is likewise ill-suited to serve as a basis for white identity. It is either too universal (addressing the human condition in general) or too local—none of us live as citizens of an ancient Greek polis. Later philosophical developments in Europe, such as the philosophies of the Enlightenment, likewise tend to be too universal for white supremacists seeking a tribal identity. As for the scientific revolution that developed within Western culture (albeit with much borrowed from outside Europe), math doesn’t care what color someone is.

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War is being waged against Western culture from within which is in essence a war against Christianity and its moral origins in the Hebrew Bible. By attacking these Biblical foundations in the name of reason and human rights, the culture warriors of secularism are sawing off the branch on which they sit. The only way to defend Western civilisation is to reaffirm and restore its Biblical foundations. My argument is a development of ideas I first explored in my 2012 book The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth and Power.

We are living in an era which extols reason, science and human rights. These are said to be essential for progress, a civilised society and the betterment of humanity. Religion is said to be their antithesis, the source instead of superstitious mumbo-jumbo, oppression and backward-thinking.

Some of this hostility is being driven by the perceived threat from Islamic terrorism and the Islamisation of Western culture. However, this animus against religion has far deeper roots and can be traced back to what is considered the birthplace of Western reason, the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Actually, it goes back specifically to the French Enlightenment. In England and Scotland, the Enlightenment developed reason and political liberty within the framework of Biblical belief. In France, by contrast, anti-clericalism morphed into fundamental hostility to Christianity and to religion itself.

“Ecrasez l’infame,” said Voltaire (crush infamy) — the infamy to which he referred being not just the Church but Christianity, which he wanted to replace with the religion of reason, virtue and liberty, “drawn from the bosom of nature”.

Perfecting society

But this Enlightenment did not remove religion so much as pervert it. It took millenarian fantasies, the idea that the perfection of the world was at hand, and it secularised them. Instead of God producing heaven on earth, it would be mankind which would bring that about. Reason would create the perfect society and “progress” was the process by which utopia would be attained.

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“I think that we should correct the vocabulary that we use, and call a spade a spade. It is all about Jihad, the Islamic effort to spread Islam globally”:

Terrorist attack – should be called Military Jihad.

Incitement – Media Jihad.

Al-Jazeera – Media Jihad Channel.

Imposing Sharia law – Judicial Jihad or Legislative Jihad.

Boycotting Israel (BDS) – Economic Jihad.

Emigration to EU and US – Emigration Jihad / Hijra Jihad.

Building mosques, Islamic education institutions – Cultural Jihad.

Halal food – Dietary Jihad.

Hijab or Niqab – Clothing Jihad.

Activity of MSA – Academic Jihad.

Activity of CAIR – Political Jihad / Public Jihad.

Collecting money for Islamic “charities” – Financial Jihad.

Political correctness – Submission to Jihad.

J Street, Peace Now, JVP and their likes – Jewish Useful Idiots who Serve Jihad.

Iran deal – Western Support for Nuclear Jihad.

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