Christopher Columbus Deserves His Holiday

Trevor Grant Thomas.com ^ | 10/9/2017 | Trevor Grant Thomas

[DWW1990]

One of the most skilled mariners of his day, Christopher Columbus not only knew that the earth was a sphere, but was also extremely capable in all of the known science required to navigate an ocean. In addition, Columbus was a devoted Christian who was known to be a man of prayer and a serious student of God’s Word.

Born in late 1451 to Domenico Colombo, a poor to middle-class wool weaver, and Susanna Fontanarossa, at a young age Cristoforo (Italian for “Christ-bearer”) Colombo showed intelligence, drive, and a distinct impression of God at work in his life.

As Columbus would explain later in his life:

"I have had commerce and conversation with knowledgeable people of the clergy and the laity, Latins and Greeks, Jews and Moors, and with many others of different religions. Our Lord has favored my occupation and has given me an intelligent mind. He has endowed me with a great talent for seamanship; sufficient ability in astrology, geometry, and arithmetic; and the mental and physical dexterity required to draw spherical maps . . . with everything in its proper place.

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With access to the personal papers of Columbus, noted sixteenth century missionary, theologian, historian, and Dominican friar Bishop Bartolomé de Las Casas was able to describe in great detail the “Divine Providence” present in Columbus’s life. In order to achieve “one of the mightiest and divine exploits” in the history of the world, Las Casas noted that when the time had come, the “divine and supreme Master” entrusted the “illustrious and great” Christopher Columbus with “virtue, mind, zeal, labours, knowledge, and wisdom.”

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Columbus Day is perpetually overlooked as an opportune time to discuss Islamic jihad through the centuries. Spain invested in Christopher Columbus who took enormous personal risk to find an alternate sailing route to the Indies. Why? To avoid the Islamic piracy which was bankrupting European merchants pursuing trade throughout the Mediterranean. Columbus Day provides a golden opportunity to teach the centuries long history of battling Islamic hegemony. The Reconquista is not just a coincidence of Columbus' discovery.

• WikiIslam: Flat Earth and the Qur'an

  The words used to describe the shape of the earth in the quran are :

• مدهاmaddaha
• سطحها stahaha
• فرشها farshaha
• دحها dahaha
• بسطها bastaha
• All are synonyms for flat in arabic no where in the quran does it say or hint that the world is a sphere and when you ask a sheikh why does God use all the words for flat to describe Earth he just say's "Oh it's just metaphorical"

  

  

[ek_hornbeck]

The American left would prefer if our nation were led by the godless, murderous, human-sacrificing heathens so prevalent in the “New World” Columbus found.

Had the New World remained in the hands of "Native Americans" rather than Europeans, this continent would still be somewhere between the stone age and the bronze age in technological development. Now, what exactly would the Antifa snowflakes do in a world without their selfie sticks and instagram accounts? I guess they didn't think their hatred of all things Western and their love for all things "indigenous" through very much.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

Research, a lot of it, would help you.