{"id":7489,"date":"2016-11-23T13:35:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T17:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/?p=7489"},"modified":"2016-11-23T10:02:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T14:02:36","slug":"on-the-other-hand-the-way-i-explain-the-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/11\/on-the-other-hand-the-way-i-explain-the-history.html","title":{"rendered":"On the other hand, the way I explain the history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

NPR guides us through a multi-cultural, liberal celebration of Thanksgiving<\/a>. \u00a0My favorite part is this:<\/p>\n

There is evidence, in the form of a colonist\u2019s letter, to suggest the feast did happen, but the holiday didn\u2019t take off nationally until the civil war, when writer Sarah Hale advocated for it as a way to unite the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Evidence in the form of colonist\u2019s letters? \u00a0Of course. \u00a0We\u2019ve always known that. \u00a0And what other sources, pray tell, do we have to suggest otherwise? \u00a0Plus, I learned that in fifth grade in the 1970s. \u00a0That\u2019s what I call the Myth of Myths. \u00a0When you insist we need to teach people that Columbus didn\u2019t set out to prove the world is round even though I\u2019m not sure any lesson in our schools has taught that \u2013 at all. \u00a0I collect old history textbooks, some dating back to the late 30s, and I have yet to find a lesson teaching that Columbus was out to prove the world is round. \u00a0One of the things that makes me distrust a movement: advocating remedies for\u00a0symptoms or diseases that don\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n

The rest of the piece is basically anything that will involve avoiding the basis for the story as it exists in the United States. \u00a0Still yearning for that post-national age of a world order, the focus is instead on any other culture, or on issues advocated by certain political parties and philosophies. \u00a0Of course the line between education and indoctrination has always been rather thin. \u00a0The problem today is that while many have declared that the \u2018culture wars were won\u2019, there appears to be many pockets of resistance needing mopped up (hence November 8). \u00a0While that happens, expect things like this to bring less harmony and unity as much as divisiveness and disunity. \u00a0Especially if focusing on some things \u2013 like other cultures \u2013 is done to the exclusion of others \u2013 like the heritage of the United States, its unique story, and the influence and contributions of the Christian West.<\/p>\n

For those who say \u2018we need the truth\u2019, how about this: \u00a0A diverse and rich civilization made of up different people united by a few cultural distinctives fought over how to deal with a new wave of immigrants coming to their shores. \u00a0Some sought to welcome them and make peace and forge treaties against other native factions, others tried to stop them, even violently and with much killing. \u00a0Eventually the immigrants overwhelmed the struggling civilization, forcing them out of their positions of privilege and completely altering the social structures and norms of the lands the natives once dominated. \u00a0The same thing was happening in Europe, by the way. \u00a0It\u2019s just in that case, the natives won. \u00a0At least temporarily. \u00a0That\u2019s how I explain it.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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