Last
week I wrote about America being an idea.
An idea which can also be a vision or a dream. The American dream was not only the dream of
the pilgrims but also the dream of our Heavenly Parent. I believe that’s the reason that even though
the pilgrims faced a lot of suffering and hardship along the way to establish
the new colony, they also encountered many miracles.
Just
recently I watched the movie: America:Imagine the World without Her. In this documentary Dinesh D'Souza shows
a very different perspective of America from what we are presented in the
media.
In
America: Imagine a World without Her
D'Souza offers a passionate and sharply reasoned defense of America, knocking
down every important accusation made by Progressives against our country.
In
the book of the same title, you'll learn:
•Why
it is a pernicious myth that English colonists "stole" America from
the Indians or that American settlers and soldiers "stole" the
southwest from Mexico.
•Why
the descendants of slaves—and the successive waves of immigrants to the United
States—are better off here than in their old countries.
•How
America, more than any other country, is based on rewarding the enterprise and
hard-work of the common man.
•How
traditional American virtues sustain prosperity and freedom, and Progressive
arguments about "liberation" and "justice" undercut them.
•How
Progressive demagoguery about "inequality" expands the power of
government and its grasp on the taxpayer's wallet.
•Why
we should fear the Progressive agenda of "reform" which is in fact an
agenda of totalitarian control of the state over the individual.
•Why
national decline is a choice--a choice that it is still not too late to reverse.
Provocative
in its analysis, stunning in its conclusions, Dinesh D'Souza's America will be
the most talked about book of the year.
(Review
from the America: Imagine the World without Her website.
Apparently
there are historical records about the founding of this country which the
liberals don’t want us to know. Since we
just celebrated Thanksgiving Holiday, let’s look at some stories which you may
not have heard about:
~ Richard
Schiffman
"The most creative
and industrious people had no incentive to work any harder than anyone else,
unless they could utilize the power of personal motivation!"
~
William Bradford, Governor of the Plymouth Plantation from 1623-1656
Or
American Historian Gordon S. Wood who writes in The Radicalism of the American Revolution:
“The
idea of labor, of hard work, leading to increased productivity was so novel, so
radical, in the overall span of Western history that most ordinary people, most
of those who labored, could scarcely believe what was happening to them. Labor
had been so long thought to be the natural and inevitable consequence of
necessity and poverty that most people still associated it with slavery and
servitude. Therefore any possibility of oppression, any threat to the
colonists' hard earned prosperity, any hint of reducing them to the poverty of
other nations, was especially frightening; for it seemed likely to slide them
back into the traditional status of servants or slaves, into the older world
where labor was merely a painful necessity and not a source of prosperity.”
Dr.
Ben Carson writes in a column for the Washington Times newspaper praising the
strong beliefs of the Founding Fathers:
Those are the values
that allowed a ragtag army during the American Revolution to defeat the most powerful
military force on earth. They did not possess a superior fighting force or
ingenious strategies, but they did hold strong beliefs, for which they were
willing to die, while the British soldiers were just following orders. That
same kind of conviction today can lead us to become informed voters and
exercise the powers vested in us courageously.
Historically, during
great cultural clashes, those with strong convictions and beliefs have overcome
those with weak convictions, who have lost their identity. We are now involved
in a worldwide conflict with forces that wish to destroy America and our way of
life. We can capitulate to the forces of political correctness and surrender
everything that made us strong and unique for the sake of not offending anyone,
or we can proudly embrace the values and principles that made us great, honor
our Constitution and place our trust in God. This is our best safeguard.
~
Dr. Ben Carson, American Author and retired neurosurgeon.
I
wrote about the experiences of the Pilgrims at the Plymouth Plantation in my
last blog.
It is astounding that none of the new history textbooks mention about the
unsuccessful ‘common course’ practices of our first settlers. Once they got
over their socialistic attitudes and applied themselves with the ‘can do spirit,’
they became very successful and God could bless them.
In
the book as well as the movie Mr. D’Souza is very concerned about the future of
our country.
“First, the American
economy is stagnant and shrinking relative to the economies of China. Russia,
India and Brazil…Second, America is drowning in debt. While China is the
world’s largest creditor nation, America is the world’s largest debtor nation.
At $17 trillion, the national debt is now bigger than the total sum of goods
and services that America produces in a year…Finally, America is losing its
position in the world.”
As
one other critique summarizes D’Souza’s very compassioned approach:
Remember, when you have
the facts, you argue the facts. When you don't have the facts, you argue the
law, and when you don't have the facts or the law on your side, you attack the
person. When you hear his opponent’s bad mouthing Dinesh D'Souza personally,
you know they do not have an argument to make. This is why you hear politicians
trying to turn themselves into victims of personal attacks because it serves to
deflect the serious arguments being made against their policies and actions in
office. Be alert, my friends. Be alert!
~
Craig Matteson, Saline, MI
Dinesh D'Souza: A World Without America
The
Thanksgiving week and the approaching Christmas Holidays are a great
opportunity to be grateful for our heritage and reflect on the core values of
our Founding Fathers. Gratitude is a
great motivator for a course correction, especially when we can include our
Heavenly Parent's input.
