It's Called Progress

Via Michelle Malkin.

From Fox News...Students Free to Thank Anybody, Except God:

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland public school students are free to thank anyone they want while learning about the 17th century celebration of Thanksgiving — as long as it's not God.

And that is how it should be, administrators say.

I am by no means a dogmatic religionist of any particular persuasion. But contrast the above with the following three links and passages of Thanksgiving from our Nation's rich history.

It should trouble people that the very thoughts, ideas and values of our past's most prolific figures  are being stripped from our culture by a force which would purport to invoke those very same figures and their ideologies in their cause. There is a terrible deception in that - and I do hope that eventually as a result of that grand deception the very fabric of the left will oneday unwrap much more completely than might happen over the outcome of a single election.

It's enough to make one wonder, is there a battle for control of America's soul? Or is the battle to see if she gets to retain any semblance of one in her future.

Our first Thanksgiving Proclamation on June 20, 1676

"The Holy God having by a long and Continual Series of his Afflictive dispensations in and by the present Warr with the Heathen Natives of this land, written and brought to pass bitter things against his own Covenant people in this wilderness, yet so that we evidently discern that in the midst of his judgements he hath remembered mercy, having remembered his Footstool in the day of his sore displeasure against us for our sins, with many singular Intimations of his Fatherly Compassion, and regard; ...

Washington's Proclamation of 1789

WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty GOD, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits,and humbly to implore his protection and favor: And whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me "to recommend to the people of the United States, a Day of public Thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty GOD, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to established a form of government for their safety and happiness."

And Lincoln's Proclamation of 1863

By the President of the United States of America.

A Proclamation.

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God.

Comments

[Ron Deaton]

Sorry to disagree with the Maryland School Board but banning thanks to God is illegal. If a student wants to thank God, there is nothing they or anyone else, in or out of school can do to stop it; legally. Courtesy ACLJ. If they are being prevented, they need to contact ACLJ at ACLJ.org.