Who Was Christopher Columbus? ~ Hero or Villain? Criminal or Crusader?

Gloria Romanorum ^ | October 10, 2019 | Florentius

[lizma2]

bkmk

[lizma2]

Japan thought about doing biowarfare here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cherry_Blossoms_at_Night

[I want the USA back]

The left hates Columbus because he brought Christianity to America.

They won’t tell you that. Instead they say that Columbus brought death and enslavement.

[Antoninus]

They won’t tell you that. Instead they say that Columbus brought death and enslavement.

That's true. What they won't tell you is that death an enslavement were already in the Americas in spades when Columbus arrived, along with torture, perpetual warfare and man-eating.

[Retain Mike]

And of course, he had a 20th century understanding of epidemiology and knew the smallpox virus would still be active after the months it might take to trade the blankets to the Indians.

[Retain Mike]

And of course, he had a 20th century understanding of epidemiology and knew the smallpox virus would still be active after the months it might take to trade the blankets to the Indians.

[Antoninus]

And of course, he had a 20th century understanding of epidemiology and knew the smallpox virus would still be active after the months it might take to trade the blankets to the Indians.

Of course, he didn't. But according to the letter, if memory serves, his stated intention was to infect the Indians with smallpox.

[Antoninus]

Columbus Day ping!

[Antoninus]

Columbus Day ping.

[ebb tide]

Ping

[Salvation]

**We may also celebrate the advent of Christianity in the New World which did much to mitigate the more brutal aspects of both the European and the indigenous American civilizations as they collided in the 16th century. **

We can thank Columbus for the first Catholic Mass in the western hemisphere.

[Salvation]

I likw the line in that presentation: “The Real Target — Christianity.”

So true.

[Robert DeLong]

Talk about a delayed response, 2 days shy of 2 years exactly.😊

So what drove you to an almost 2 year old thread? 😊

[Antoninus]

That’s the beautiful thing about Free Republic — you can ping a 2 year old thread and it will show up at the top.

Just as relevant today as it was 2 years ago.

[DuncanWaring]

One thing people forget/don’t realize is that Columbus crossed the South Atlantic in three wooden boats during peak hurricane season; he’s lucky his three boats weren’t turned into so much flotsam and jetsam.

And if, in fact, that fate had befallen him, and he was “lost at sea”, eventually, someone else would have had the idea “Hey ... I bet I could get to China by sailing west...”.

The New World was destined to be discovered by the Europeans; it was only a matter of time.

[Robert DeLong]

Oh, I have been here for a long time, and I did not know that. Thanks for increasing my knowledge. 🙂

[Bigg Red]

Very informative.

[Bigg Red]

Not to mention that he had super powers that would allow him to handle infected blankets without contaminating himself.

[Retain Mike]

Those who propose him as guilty of biological warfare will never allow their rhetoric to be juxtaposed against the status of European medicine in the 15th century.

[Bigg Red]

Yep