Nov 20 2008
“In a little more than one hour, five or six hundred of these barbarians
were dismissed from a world that was burdened with them.”
“It may be demanded…Should not Christians have more mercy andcompassion? But…sometimes the Scripture declareth women and children must perish with their parents…. We had sufficient light from the word of God for our proceedings.”
-Puritan divine Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana
Nov 23 2007
I’vew been busy… so exuce me for not posting for a while.
Well, today is a day for family. I found out what that means, precisely… at least on the red-headed stepchild side.
No food– NONE– for me, nor for my four year old. my wife got dessert…
so, the cold shoulder.
We should be used to it. We crave peace, we crave understanding.
Nov 22 2007
Thanksgiving is always a very strange time, for me. Sixteen years ago, the day before Thanksgiving, I was diagnosed with cancer.
Several weeks later, after the chemo had eliminated the superficial symptoms, and before it had completely debilitated me, I wrote the following:
Nov 22 2007
Nov 21 2007
http://images.google.com/imgre…“In a little more than one hour, five or six hundred of these barbarians
were dismissed from a world that was burdened with them.”“It may be demanded…Should not Christians have more mercy and
compassion? But…sometimes the Scripture declareth women and children must perish with their parents…. We had sufficient light from the word of God for our proceedings.”-Puritan divine Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana
Crossposted at Native American Netroots &
Progressive Historians
Nov 20 2007
This is a Diary that in one form or another has run at Daily Kos for the past three years. A number of people have asked me to post it again, and I thought my friends at docudharma might also be interested. This is a heavily edited version of last’s year’s piece:
I forced myself to watch the History Channel’s Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower last weekend. I don’t feel as if I totally wasted my time. Including performances and interviews of some Wampanoags, descendants of the indigenes who saw the Puritans make landfall 387 years ago, made the program a good deal more palatable than it might have been.
I would have preferred a bit more about how one reason the Pilgrims were “persecuted” in England and Holland was because of their efforts to get everyone to comply with their own crabbed view of religion. Something they also did here in America. Not dissimilar from what some modern day others would like to do now. But what an improvement the program was over past efforts.
