{"id":1751863,"date":"2022-11-26T06:30:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T11:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1751863"},"modified":"2022-11-26T08:18:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T13:18:02","slug":"jerry-newcombe-thanksgiving-on-the-chopping-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jerry-newcombe-thanksgiving-on-the-chopping-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Newcombe: Thanksgiving on the Chopping Block?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjerry-newcombe-thanksgiving-on-the-chopping-block%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1751863&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/f0be935f-9fe7-4dd9-8c5e-50d7f7378123@news.ap_.org_.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The left seems to be dismantling Western Civilization, and in particular Christian contributions to it, one step at a time. Now, Thanksgiving, a wonderful American holiday, is on the chopping block among some.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For example, Campus Reform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/article?id=20627\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a>: \u201cUniversity of Alaska Southeast (UAS) removed \u2018Thanksgiving Closure\u2019 from its calendar in place of \u2018Fall Break\u2019 at the alleged urging of a university professor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It was a professor of Alaska Native Languages. He wrote, \u201cWe are not a white Christian organization, we are a university.\u201d He said it was time for \u201cdecolonizing Thanksgiving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The school agreed with him and sent out this talking point: \u201cWe believe that University breaks should respect all peoples\u2026We used to have Christmas Break and Easter Break but changed those many years ago to Winter break and Spring Break.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This is not uncommon today. Foxnews.com <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/thanksgiving-vilified-media-schools-celebration-genocide-imperialism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a> (11\/21\/22) that many schools and media sources are trying to erase Thanksgiving because of woke ideology.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">They state: \u201cThis week, millions of Americans will be celebrating Thanksgiving with family and friends, eating a good meal and watching football. But a creeping vilification of the popular holiday has spread across media outlets and schools, claiming that Thanksgiving is about \u2018genocide\u2019 and \u2018imperialism.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/thanksgiving-vilified-media-schools-celebration-genocide-imperialism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quotes<\/a> a Native American activist who said on MSNBC last year: \u201cInstead of bringing stuffing and biscuits, those settlers brought genocide and violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This common talking point among the left isn\u2019t true&#8212;but that doesn\u2019t seem to stop the woke from constantly using it. It\u2019s ironic because Thanksgiving shows what happened when people of different cultures sit down and celebrate together. The left always pretends to celebrate diversity. But the original Thanksgiving, which they hate, was a celebration involving true diversity.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In my <a href=\"https:\/\/providenceforum.org\/blog\/keep-up-to-date-on-the-foundation-film-series-on-americas-christian-roots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">film<\/a> for Providence Forum, \u201cThe Pilgrims,\u201d we feature some guests who showed how the original Thanksgiving celebration in 1621 in Plymouth, Massachusetts provided a good example of people with different backgrounds and cultures breaking bread in harmony.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">One guest was William Wrestling Brewster, the great-grandson (by nine generations) of Elder William Brewster, who was the de facto pastor of the Pilgrims in Plymouth.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Brewster the younger said of those early days in Plymouth: \u201cThere\u2019s really three entities. There\u2019s the Pilgrims, there\u2019s the Strangers, and then there\u2019s the Native Americans. And they needed to learn how to get along and in a cohesive nature when they came here.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Strangers were hired hands of the Pilgrims. They were Englishmen who were sympathetic to the idea of a Bible-based colony, but they weren\u2019t directly a part of the Pilgrim congregation. Two very famous Strangers were Miles Standish, their armed guard, and John Alden, the barrel-maker.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Even after a devastating winter in which half of their number had died, by the time of harvest in the fall of 1621, the permanency of the Plymouth settlement was becoming clear. So the Pilgrims set aside time to thank God for His help. And they invited their new friends, the Indians, to celebrate with them. Earlier the Pilgrims and Indians had made a treaty of peace that would last more than half a century.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In later eras, European settlers, as well as Americans, mistreated Native-Americans in grave miscarriages of justice. But in doing so, they were not at all following the example of the Pilgrims.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Rev. Billy Falling, a Native-American minister and author, was a guest in our documentary. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/us\/2020\/november\/the-pilgrims-brought-the-values-that-shaped-freedom-loving-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>, \u201cThe Pilgrims did have good relations with the Indians. The Pilgrims were kind to the Indians, they showed them love, they showed them compassion, they showed them the godly way to live.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Falling told me: \u201cAs a Native American, I thank God for the Europeans that brought us the Gospel and brought us Western Civilization. Native Americans were just as pagan as the rest of the world. They practiced cannibalism, they practiced devil worship, they practiced slavery, they practiced polygamy, they practiced all the sins of the flesh that the rest of the world practiced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Falling added, \u201cIt\u2019s hard today to find a \u2018sweat\u2019 where, as a Native American, you can go inside and smoke out your sins; but it\u2019s easy to find Native Americans in any congregation in the United States, worshiping the Lord Jesus Christ because of the Europeans. And I thank God for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">George Washington was the president to declare a national day of Thanksgiving, in which he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountvernon.org\/education\/primary-source-collections\/primary-source-collections\/article\/thanksgiving-proclamation-of-1789\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>, \u201c[I]t 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.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">President Lincoln made Thanksgiving an annual holiday&#8212;during the bleak days of the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Thanksgiving is a rich American holiday and should not be jettisoned because of today\u2019s politically correct professors and media pundits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"isPasted\"><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Jerry Newcombe, D.Min., is the executive director of the Providence Forum, an outreach of D. James Kennedy Ministries, where Jerry also serves as senior producer and an on-air contributor. He has written\/co-written 33 books, including George Washington\u2019s Sacred Fire (with Providence Forum founder Peter Lillback, Ph.D.) and What If Jesus Had Never Been Born? (with D. James Kennedy, Ph.D.). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.providenceforum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.providenceforum.org<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.djkm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.djkm.org<\/a> @newcombejerry \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrynewcombe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>www.jerrynewcombe.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The left seems to be dismantling Western Civilization, and in particular Christian contributions to it, one step at a time. 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