360: The Real Thanksgiving: October 26, 2007

THANKSGIVING: The year was 1637.....700 men, women and children of the Pequot Tribe, gathered for their "Annual Green Corn Dance" in the area that is now known as Groton, Conn.

While they were gathered in this place of meeting, they were surrounded and attacked by mercernaries of the English and Dutch. The Indians were ordered from the building and as they came forth, they were shot down. The rest were burned alive in the building.

The next day, the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony declared : "A day of Thanksgiving, thanking God that they had eliminited over 700 men, women and children. For the next 100 years, every "Thanksgiving Day" ordained by a Governor or President was to honor that victory, thanking God that the battle had been won.

Source: Documents of Holland, 13 Volume Colonial Documentary History, letters and reports form colonial officials to their superiors and the King in England and the private papers of Sir William Johnson, Britsh Indian agent for the New York colony for 30 years. Researched by William B. Newell (Penobscot Tribe) Former Chairman of the University of Connecticut360: The Real Thanksgiving: October 26, 2007

360: christianity & U.S. Government: June 1, 2007

Why are these quotes not taught in high schools and universities?

"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man"
-Thomas Jefferson

"Lighthouses are more useful than churches" -
-Benjamin Franklin

"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it"
-John Adams

"During almost 15 centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, as well as superstition, bigotry and persecution."
-James Madison

And, .read this one below VERY carefully

"The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion"


- A 1796 treaty signed by John Adams