A group of Calvinist religious fanatics, in full rebellion against the traditions of their forefathers, thus brought with them to virgin shores the memetic virus of do-gooding moral evangelism that made Massachusetts ever a plague to the other American colonies, and makes America a plague to the whole world today.
The Pilgrims were so indistinct from the Puritans that the two groups are oft confused with each other. Indeed, the idiots who
banned Christmas, a holiday that they
correctly identified as “pagan” (and therefore hated for its essential nature), infamously included
Mayflower passenger William Bradford, who cracked down on Christmas merriment in 1621—right after the Pilgrims’ first “Thanksgiving”!
John Taylor, The Vindication of Christmas (1652)The cultural issue of both groups was the obsession both with change, and with moral scrupulosity, which mutated into New England liberalism. To those who look to first principles, it is wholly unsurprising that their descendants dabbled in all manner of fantasies from Unitarianism to Transcendentalism to Unitarian Universalism—ultimately winding up as the extreme modern liberals whom we all know and despise. It is no wonder that liberals love “
virtue-signalling”: They are simply religious zealots who, like the Pilgrims and other Boston-area fanatical cults, have repudiated
traditional religions.
So—because the Pilgrims’ ill-conceived, unprepared traipse into the wilderness somehow did not result in them
all dying, they now have a “holiday” which, in truth, is significantly older, but somehow became misappropriated for them.
For the morrow:The Puritans’ and Pilgrims’ war on Christmas ultimately succeeded by other means: Their crass and ruthless mercantile culture transformed the Christmas holiday into an extended American shopping spree. It is all too fitting that the commercialization of Christmas is directly associated with “Thanksgiving” via the most peculiarly American of all holidays:
Black Friday.As a non-Christian who appreciates the ancient spirit whence came the historical Christmas holiday, I remind you that celebrating
any “holiday” by buying useless consumer junk shows only that life is cheap, and you are worthless.
Thanks for nothing.
Local rules. Will be enforced.
