Thanksgiving and the "civil Body Politick"

I had much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, not the least of which is men who know how to fix things -- another of my crises; however, that is not all for which I am thankful. I had parents who married and stayed married; later,when extreme bad fortune intervened, the parent left was always there, dependable, responsible and conscious of setting a good example for unruly children -- not always successful, of course.

Yesterday and last night I had reason to be even more thankful for the farm bounty so readily available for preserving. With others, I spent time preparing food for winter. A full larder and warm clothes, a roof over one's head and a newspaper to read. Thanks to God, the gods, fate, good fortune and more.




This is one of the posts I liked very much this Thanksgiving.

Burkean Canuck: Thanksgiving and the "civil Body Politick" October 09, 2005

Last year, I wrote here about the Plymouth Pilgrims' thanksgiving in scarcity. They first celebrated it in 1621 after a year of dying on board the Mayflower, being put ashore by the Mayflower's unscrupulous captain at cold and bleak Massachusetts Bay instead of in the warmer climes of Virginia far to the south. They had difficulties in managing a limited food supply and the resulting starvation. There were uncertain negotiations with the local Indians and difficulty enforcing that "treaty" among some of the more unruly members of the colony, and so on.

What drove them? [. . . . ]

For the past 100 years or more, and especially the last fifty, radically secularist modernist-liberals have sought to eradicate especially Christian discourse from the public domains of Canada and the U.S. They have sought to erase any evidence of the influence of Christian political thought on the creation and development of Canadian and American constitutional, representative government and our broader cultural development. [. . . . ]

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