Excellent. Thank you for spreading historical truth. Your channel is so underrated. Also, your website is awesome for both content and design (I'm a computer science major)!
+FreeMind Thanks! I've made some revisions to the website this summer and I'm still working on it. It's been a great experience trying year after year to make the site more appealing and accessible.
Awesome! I love how dedicated you are to teaching students and spending some of your free time teaching us. We need more teachers that are fun and dedicated like you! Thank you so much.
The Pilgrims (Mayflower and Plymouth Rock) and the Puritans of MBC were distinct groups that did not fully overlap--an important distinction missing from this video.
2:19 - Tom Richey is like the cool, right-leaning version of John Green's Crash Course US history series. Both are great men though ... despite Green's aversion to 'great men' history!
Although I do agree with your point that puritans were not the founders of religious freedom in present individualistic and pluralistic sense, I think you didnt get the meaning of the quote you presented here right. The city on the hill is the metaphore from the bible, as you notesd. And it is a metafore of a follower/s (individual or community) full of light which should be a light house for others - to show the godly life and to attarct others to God (the same way as Jewish were called to be the example for the rest of the world - and also with the warning, what would happen if they failed theier purpose). And thus, if they do fail in that, what else is there to offer? The same metaphor as with the salt - if that looses slatiness, what else is it good for? So, I belive his quote it is not an expression of a poor egocentric wining as you paroded it, but rahter a true challenge, a vision and warning at the same time. Of course, that doesnt mean (at least that verse in bible is nowehere on that context) that such a city (godly life style and his presence in the midst) can be built by enforcing it from outside by some legal power or community pushing. It always for the inner work of Spirit, expressing itself outwardly. That is something that must arise from hearts filled with Gods light. The same methaphore is with the lapm that cant be hidden under tha table...all 3 methaphores are in 1 context and so the quote should not be taken out of the context. At least his original purpose was beautoful I think. Maybe the practical doing at the end werent such---as they expelled those who were differing even the slightest....
Religious tolerance vs religious conformity in the early colonial era. This was interesting. I will look into the lives of Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson.
Point of order: we hold up Roger Williams as an advocate of religious freedom, but wasn't it more the case that he left Massachusetts and founded Rhode Island and Providence Plantations because he disagreed with Mass's compulsory church attendance on the grounds that "Forced worship stinks in the nostrils of God"? That is, it wasn't that he wanted voluntary worship for its own sake, but because he didn't like half-hearted believers sitting beside him in the congregation.
Wow. That is really eye opening. The whole sappy Thanksgiving story from elementary school is a lie, or at the least very misleading. The pilgrims were dicks. This video does talk about how they practiced thier own form of strict religious control. I think of it as tyranny. The Salem incident is the worst part. I have also learned that the Pilgrims were not that great to the Native Americans either. The real life history of Columbus and Pocahontas is also seriously screwed up. Not only did Columbus not discover America, he is also responsible for horrific bloodshed of Native Americans. This set a gruesome trend indeed. If anything I think Columbus is a good contender for one of the worst historical figures ever. This is based just on bloodshed alone. Disney movies typically make huge changes to the source material. In severe cases, like Hercules and Tangled, it is like night and day. Pocahontas has the same problem as other Disney movies. However people really crucified this one for the historical inaccuracy. There is so much panning with this one. Apparently Disney tried too hard to make a romantic fairy tale out of a tragic horror story. So it was really jarring for people. Poor Pocahontas. What the Virginia English settlers did to her was so wrong.
I believe that it is safe to say: If the "Founding Fathers" knew how the world would be today, then they would have added some principles for our nationhood which does more to protect our freedoms and national independence.
> "We must knitt together in this worke as one." Perfect Analysis!! This sounds so much like communism !!!! I'm wondering whether this kind of analysis is discussed in regular schools with children.
@Jose Jose I think it holds people in the past instead of being a learning tool most often. I wonder if its necessary to learn history? Maybe we just need to know the way to create better futures.
Excellent. Thank you for spreading historical truth. Your channel is so underrated. Also, your website is awesome for both content and design (I'm a computer science major)!
+FreeMind Thanks! I've made some revisions to the website this summer and I'm still working on it. It's been a great experience trying year after year to make the site more appealing and accessible.
Awesome! I love how dedicated you are to teaching students and spending some of your free time teaching us. We need more teachers that are fun and dedicated like you! Thank you so much.
Thanks for the video! I hope you release some more APUSH videos
+sallyburger I will! APUSH is a top priority for me this year - hoping for a video a week.
thank god I'm taking APUSH this year
You are the MAN Tom! So great to talk to you today.
+dsjenson Likewise, man! Always a pleasure!
The Pilgrims (Mayflower and Plymouth Rock) and the Puritans of MBC were distinct groups that did not fully overlap--an important distinction missing from this video.
Thank You! So Helpfull, I'm writing an essay about religion in early colonies. Anyone know any other UA-camrs or articles that talk about this?
Excellent!
2:19 - Tom Richey is like the cool, right-leaning version of John Green's Crash Course US history series.
Both are great men though ... despite Green's aversion to 'great men' history!
next video? I'm on a phone so I don't know if you linked it
+bodhifyer I'm working on the next segment now - will be released either tonight or tomorrow.
+Tom Richey thank you greatly! I just wanted to make sure I didn't miss any content
+Tom Richey I really feel like I'm actually learning about my country listening to your videos
This is another great topic.
Although I do agree with your point that puritans were not the founders of religious freedom in present individualistic and pluralistic sense, I think you didnt get the meaning of the quote you presented here right. The city on the hill is the metaphore from the bible, as you notesd. And it is a metafore of a follower/s (individual or community) full of light which should be a light house for others - to show the godly life and to attarct others to God (the same way as Jewish were called to be the example for the rest of the world - and also with the warning, what would happen if they failed theier purpose). And thus, if they do fail in that, what else is there to offer? The same metaphor as with the salt - if that looses slatiness, what else is it good for? So, I belive his quote it is not an expression of a poor egocentric wining as you paroded it, but rahter a true challenge, a vision and warning at the same time. Of course, that doesnt mean (at least that verse in bible is nowehere on that context) that such a city (godly life style and his presence in the midst) can be built by enforcing it from outside by some legal power or community pushing. It always for the inner work of Spirit, expressing itself outwardly. That is something that must arise from hearts filled with Gods light. The same methaphore is with the lapm that cant be hidden under tha table...all 3 methaphores are in 1 context and so the quote should not be taken out of the context. At least his original purpose was beautoful I think.
Maybe the practical doing at the end werent such---as they expelled those who were differing even the slightest....
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Great topic.
Religious tolerance vs religious conformity in the early colonial era. This was interesting. I will look into the lives of Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson.
Point of order: we hold up Roger Williams as an advocate of religious freedom, but wasn't it more the case that he left Massachusetts and founded Rhode Island and Providence Plantations because he disagreed with Mass's compulsory church attendance on the grounds that "Forced worship stinks in the nostrils of God"? That is, it wasn't that he wanted voluntary worship for its own sake, but because he didn't like half-hearted believers sitting beside him in the congregation.
Just finished editing my segment on Roger Williams. I'm looking forward to hearing what you think after it I post it tomorrow.
Indeed...
Lol last minute history project, really helped. Thanks man
Thanks so much for this video. There are people today calling themselves Puritans and they are not anything like what you described in this video lol
what religion are you
"They had a nice little meal" yeah right hahaha
Wow. That is really eye opening. The whole sappy Thanksgiving story from elementary school is a lie, or at the least very misleading. The pilgrims were dicks. This video does talk about how they practiced thier own form of strict religious control. I think of it as tyranny. The Salem incident is the worst part. I have also learned that the Pilgrims were not that great to the Native Americans either. The real life history of Columbus and Pocahontas is also seriously screwed up. Not only did Columbus not discover America, he is also responsible for horrific bloodshed of Native Americans. This set a gruesome trend indeed. If anything I think Columbus is a good contender for one of the worst historical figures ever. This is based just on bloodshed alone. Disney movies typically make huge changes to the source material. In severe cases, like Hercules and Tangled, it is like night and day. Pocahontas has the same problem as other Disney movies. However people really crucified this one for the historical inaccuracy. There is so much panning with this one. Apparently Disney tried too hard to make a romantic fairy tale out of a tragic horror story. So it was really jarring for people. Poor Pocahontas. What the Virginia English settlers did to her was so wrong.
I believe that it is safe to say: If the "Founding Fathers" knew how the world would be today, then they would have added some principles for our nationhood which does more to protect our freedoms and national independence.
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> "We must knitt together in this worke as one."
Perfect Analysis!! This sounds so much like communism !!!!
I'm wondering whether this kind of analysis is discussed in regular schools with children.
@Jose Jose I think it holds people in the past instead of being a learning tool most often. I wonder if its necessary to learn history? Maybe we just need to know the way to create better futures.
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Great topic.