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Wednesday, November 21. 2018

Why GK Chesterton proposed a Thanksgiving Day for England

After touring the US during Prohibition, he wanted to give thanks for the removal of those "dour Puritans" from England. 


From Int. Takeout:



 When back home in England, Chesterton’s objections gave way to thanks. That would be thankfulness that his country had not taken a similar step. In fact, it was this very sense of thankfulness that led him to propose a Thanksgiving Day for England. It would be a day to “celebrate the departure of those dour Puritans, the Pilgrim fathers.”


Posted by The Barrister at 14:11 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Hah hah!! I bet they wish they had the "dour" Pilgrims over the homicidal Muslims.
#1 Anon on 2018-11-21 16:05 (Reply)
True, but your homicidal inner city population takes up the slack.
#1.1 thud on 2018-11-25 14:37 (Reply)
Chesterton had a thing about Puritans and Calvinists in general. Not the worst of Christians by any stretch, but you'd never know it to read GKC.
#2 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2018-11-22 12:59 (Reply)
Chesterton was speaking in the context of his own time, when mainstream Protestant denominations were still Christian and, therefore, closer to Catholicism than the very hostile and heterodox Calvinist and Puritan sects.
#2.1 DeGaulle on 2018-11-23 04:57 (Reply)
A lot of the puritans were already gone from England and relocated to Holland.
#3 Bistro on 2018-11-23 09:20 (Reply)

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