The Pilgrims didn’t just give America Thanksgiving celebrations. They believed religious freedom and liberty were worth dying for. They made the Bible America’s most-read guide to life. And the Pilgrims’ covenant with God and man in 1620 and the form of self-rule they pioneered would eventually shape America’s Constitution and the entire government.
“2020 is the 400th anniversary of the founding of Plymouth. I think that’s a huge milestone. It’s a great milestone in human history,” said Christian historian Jerry Newcombe, producer of the documentary, “The Pilgrims.”
“The Pilgrims” looks at how those 51 surviving Pilgrims not only lived through their first brutal Massachusetts winter but went on to influence their future nation.
“This small, small group casts a very large shadow,” Newcombe told CBN News.
30 Million Americans Descended from the Mayflower Pilgrims
In Newcombe’s documentary, Pilgrim reenactor Leo Martin, founder of Plymouth’s Jenney Museum, asks, “Did you know today that 10 percent of the population of the United States are Mayflower descendants? 30 million people from 51.”
“The Pilgrims founded America for all intents and purposes,” argues Prager U founder Dennis Prager in the documentary.
In those days, England demanded all its citizens belong to the Church of England and conform to its
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