[Publib] 'Giving Thanks' from the Kid's Reading Room of theLosAngeles Times

[Marc.Kulkin at mcphs.edu]

Total fluff piece indeed.  "People were free to practice their religions
as they saw fit"....Oops, not really. Actually not at all... Well maybe
as long as the religion was the same Protestant sect as the Pilgrims.
Last time I checked, that is not freedom to practice one's own religion.
And dare I ask about those who did not want to practice religion?  

Marc Kulkin
Blais Family Library - Library and Learning Resources
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
19 Foster Street
Worcester, MA 01608
marc.kulkin at mpchs.edu




-----Original Message-----
From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Fred Beisser
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 1:16 PM
To: Scott Bonner
Cc: 'PUBLIB'
Subject: Re: [Publib] 'Giving Thanks' from the Kid's Reading Room of
theLosAngeles Times

Thanks for your thoughts, Scott. They sound similar to the comments at 
http://tinyurl.com/5khxsl.

Fred

Scott Bonner wrote:
> Nice politicizing, and in tune with the recent market-related
bickering on
> Publib, not to mention the oft-celebrated off-topic-ness.
>
> One would be hard pressed to use Pilgrims as an example of free
markets,
> free minds, or religious liberty, but that doesn't stop us from doing
> exactly that.  Their society was a libertarian's nightmare.  I know, I
know,
> they weren't as bad as portrayed - but they also weren't as good as
> portrayed, either.  In any case, the article was a poorly written
fluff
> piece, didn't so much show failed socialism as successful parsing of
> state-owned resources out to preferred citizens (is that the new
> capitalism?), and contained numerous historical inaccuracies, like the
idea
> that the Pilgrims had it so rough.
>
> (Side note: If they did, it was their own fault.  They built on land
that
> had been cleared and cultivated by natives for who-knows-how-long, and
was
> conveniently empty just prior to Pilgrim arrival thanks to infections
of
> smallpox and other plagues from European visitors some years before.
What
> could be easier, and still be called colonizing?  There are great,
famous
> sermons from the Pilgrim leaders praising God, for He had seen to
their
> plenty by killing off so many unbelieving savages.  More politicizing,
or
> just history?  That depends on your politics.)
>
> Scott
> Speaking for no one but myself
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org]
> On Behalf Of Fred Beisser
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 11:05 AM
> To: PUBLIB
> Subject: [Publib] 'Giving Thanks' from the Kid's Reading Room of the
> LosAngeles Times
>
>  From the Kid's Reading Room of the LA Times comes a Thanksgiving
story 
> and a lesson in failed socialism. See:
>
http://www.latimes.com/features/kids/readingroom/la-et-story23-2008nov23
,0,7
> 094177.story
>
> Fred Beisser
> Trustee
> www.elbertcountylibrary.org
> (Colorado)
>
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