Let there be no misunderstanding here: in no way nor manner am I comparing the President-elect to the Creator. That will remain the tactic of the Liberals, as they've done with Obama and Bill's wife.
No, this post is meant to underscore the new beginnings that President Trump presages....appointments have suggested a new and positive relationship with Israel, and an equally positive view of vouchers and charter schools, wresting control from the teacher's unions.
No, this is a hope that President Trump will renew the American belief and acceptance of God's place in America.
From an editorial in today's NYSun:
1. "Washington, we have noted in our annual Thanksgiving editorial, had been asked by Congress to recommend “a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God.”
2. John Adams, noting that the “the safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and the blessing of Almighty God” and that “the national acknowledgment of this truth is not only an indispensable duty which the people owe to Him, but a duty whose natural influence is favorable to the promotion of that morality and piety without which social happiness can not exist nor the blessings of a free government be enjoyed,” recommended “a day of solemn humiliation, fasting, and prayer” to “the Father of Mercies.”
3. Thomas Jefferson — an architect of the idea of the separation of church and state — did not issue a Thanksgiving proclamation.[ At least not while he was president; in 1789, he did, while serving as governor of Virginia, issue a proclamation establishing December 9, 1789, as a day of thanksgiving to God.]
4. The practice resumed with James Madison, who set aside January 12, 1815, as “a day on which all may have an opportunity of voluntarily offering at the same time in their respective religious assemblies their humble adoration to the Great Sovereign of the Universe, of confessing their sins and transgressions, and of strengthening their vows of repentance.”
5. Lincoln issued four Thanksgiving proclamations, two of which — in 1862 and 1863 — made reference to a divine role in Union military victories. In 1864, he set apart the last Thursday in November “as a day which I desire to be observed by all my fellow-citizens, wherever they may then be, as a day of thanksgiving and praise to Almighty God, the beneficent Creator and Ruler of the Universe.”
Our Common Creed - The New York Sun
No, this post is meant to underscore the new beginnings that President Trump presages....appointments have suggested a new and positive relationship with Israel, and an equally positive view of vouchers and charter schools, wresting control from the teacher's unions.
No, this is a hope that President Trump will renew the American belief and acceptance of God's place in America.
From an editorial in today's NYSun:
1. "Washington, we have noted in our annual Thanksgiving editorial, had been asked by Congress to recommend “a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God.”
2. John Adams, noting that the “the safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and the blessing of Almighty God” and that “the national acknowledgment of this truth is not only an indispensable duty which the people owe to Him, but a duty whose natural influence is favorable to the promotion of that morality and piety without which social happiness can not exist nor the blessings of a free government be enjoyed,” recommended “a day of solemn humiliation, fasting, and prayer” to “the Father of Mercies.”
3. Thomas Jefferson — an architect of the idea of the separation of church and state — did not issue a Thanksgiving proclamation.[ At least not while he was president; in 1789, he did, while serving as governor of Virginia, issue a proclamation establishing December 9, 1789, as a day of thanksgiving to God.]
4. The practice resumed with James Madison, who set aside January 12, 1815, as “a day on which all may have an opportunity of voluntarily offering at the same time in their respective religious assemblies their humble adoration to the Great Sovereign of the Universe, of confessing their sins and transgressions, and of strengthening their vows of repentance.”
5. Lincoln issued four Thanksgiving proclamations, two of which — in 1862 and 1863 — made reference to a divine role in Union military victories. In 1864, he set apart the last Thursday in November “as a day which I desire to be observed by all my fellow-citizens, wherever they may then be, as a day of thanksgiving and praise to Almighty God, the beneficent Creator and Ruler of the Universe.”
Our Common Creed - The New York Sun
