2007 Press Points to Antithesis; Hope
March 13, 2007
The following was posted on crosswalk.com.
NY Times Highlights Jamestown ‘Celebration’ Problem; Vision Forum Responds with Christian Celebration
As America turns 400 this year with the founding of Jamestown in 1607, officials leading America’s 400th birthday commemoration have banned the term “celebration” in conjunction with their efforts and sought to discredit the Christian influence of the Jamestown Colony, a Vision Forum release says. Mary Wade of the Virginia Council of Indians said in a Voice of America interview, “You can’t celebrate an invasion.” In a March 2 article in the New York Times entitled,”Captain Smith, ‘The Tides Are Shifting on the James,’” Edward Rothstein wrote the following of PC shift Wade’s statement represents: “The [National Park Service] has just added a modest historical exhibition in its visitors’ center [at Historic Jamestowne]... [with a] panel [which] emphasizes the point: ‘Past Jamestown anniversaries were referred to as ‘celebrations.’ Because many facets of Jamestown’s history are not cause for celebration, like human bondage and the displacement of Virginia Indians, the Jamestown 400th Anniversary is referred to as the Jamestown 2007 Commemoration.” As an alternative, Vision Forum Ministries is hosting an alternative event on June 11-16 in Virginia’s historic triangle that will celebrate God’s providential hand in the founding of America four centuries ago. To learn more, visit: www.jamestown400th.org.
