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Posted on 10/12/2026 6:07:33 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Should we or shouldn’t we celebrate Columbus day? Every year the debate rages around this time whether the expansion of European civilization into the western hemisphere was a positive or negative development in human history.
Of course Columbus himself was a complex figure, and there is much to love or hate about him depending on one’s point of view. The leftward side of the debate points out Columbus’s greed, ambition, pride and at times cruelty.
And yet on the other side , one must admire the bravery, tenacity, and Columbus’ willingness to venture at great risk. Columbus also had a pious side to him, for he felt he was part of a greater purpose than his own ambition. He believed he was fulfilling the Words of the Hebrew prophets of the Bible in his voyages.
But obviously Columbus day isn’t merely about Columbus ,it’s really about western civilisation, and its expansion among the native peoples of the western hemisphere. That historical fact can either be seen as a breakthrough or as an appalling injustice.
All of this annual back and forth has come to us courtesy of multiculturalism, the philosophy that has flourished in our education system for at least forty years.
This post-modern doctrine holds that all cultures are equally valid, and that one culture’s ‘narrative’ is as good as the other. Worldviews are just ‘narratives’, viewpoints, all equally valid, because MultiCulturalism is radical relativism.
The idea that all cultures are equal sounds good to the naive idealist, but it couldn’t be true. All cultures are not equal, some are positively toxic and a good many have been wiped out because they were unsustainable,(Sodom and Gomorrah come to mind).
Multiculturalism is a dangerous fantasy, because it is in reality a veiled assault on Western civilization, relentlessly working to invalidate the incredible accomplishments of the West, scientifically,socially, culturally and otherwise.
The latest standard bearer of Western Civilization has primarily been the United States of America, for the last eighty years at least.
Therefore the history of the USA has to be ‘deconstructed’, through a toxic process of revisionist history , exaggerating the flaws and sins of the past, minimising the accomplishments, and holding our ancestors to modern-day standards of thought and behaviour.
The real beef the Multi-culturists have is with Christianity. The west was the flourishing place for at least the last thousand years for the development of Christianity, therefore Western civilisation is the ‘perpetual bad guy’ in the retelling of world history.
To the Devotees of MC, the West’s astonishing progress and the elevation in standards of living she has brought to the rest of the world, must have come at the expense of the third World, or the Moslem world.
Multiculturalism is really an Expression of AntiChrist, and its problem is with God himself. It is AntiChrist because it retells the story of the Garden of Eden and the fall.
The Third world was Eden, until the evil Europeans came to colonize . Never mind that the Tribes of the world have slaughtered, subjugated and enslaved and exploited each other ever since Adam and Eve fell.
To those raised on relentless propaganda such as Disney’s Pocahantas, or the recent fantasy, Avatar, the third world , and pre-Columbian North and South America, was a giant, peace-loving Eden, until the Europeans came to despoil it.
In the final analysis Multi-Culturalists are resenting the Sovereignty of God.God moves in the affairs of nations, Power belongs to Him, he gives and takes away,raises and elevates for his own good purpose.
And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?(Daniel 4:34-35)
The same God who raised up the United States of America, and used Columbus to discover it, allowed Europeans to colonize it, and drive the Indians further west, Is now judging the United States and the rest of the European nations, in short the West for their sins.
It’s about God, and his Lordship over History. Those who cry loud and long about Slavery, (abolished 150 years ago, after the bloodiest War the USA ever had),never seem to mention that Slavery was the rule in Africa, Asia, the Muslim world, and the rest of the world for Millenia. Only the West, Britain and America insisted on its demise and that at great cost.
As good Multiculturists, they are selective about History, rarely mentioning that at the height of the slave trade there were European slaves in Africa, 3000 black slave holders in the South, and that Muslim slave traders have been bartering with tribal chieftains in Africa for centuries , trading in human lives!
Resenting history is big business now, it is being used to divide people, to stop the healing of ancient wounds and to deny the accomplishments of decent and well-meaning people, for with people of conscience and decency, Guilt is a great tool of manipulation.But that same God of history sees and is taking note. Happy Columbus day everybody!
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“The leftward side of the debate points out Columbus’s greed, ambition, pride and at times cruelty.”
I didnt get read full article yet, but same could be said for Islam, vikings, native Americans and other indigenous peoples, just about any people group ever.
maybe we should stoop celebrating anyone?
The first democrat. Didn’t know where he was going when he left. Didn’t know where he was when he got there. Didn’t know where he had been when he got back.
And he did it all with other people’s money.
Be sure to use $20 bills today.
The first people Columbus met in the Americas were a fleeing bands of slaves, natives slaves by another tribe.
This is well documented.
And yet unsaid in such discussions.
The “conquistadors” did very little conquering. They basically rallied people the Aztecs enslaved, sacrificed, and subjugated who fought for their own freedom.
Everything the left says is the Big Lie.
This is from 2010, but still relevant today.
I miss Pastor Bill—may he RIP.
He changed the world for the better.
Not a democrat.
“But obviously Columbus day isn’t merely about Columbus ,it’s really about western civilisation, and its expansion among the native peoples of the western hemisphere.”
I’m obviously gonna be forever reading if I keep running into stuff like the above.
Columbus Day, to me, isn’t about the western hemisphere, it’s about a guy, Columbus, being one a main guy who came here and the USA came from that.
Pastor BILL, thew indigenous people of north and South America were routinely stealing killing enslaving torturing people from other people groups on the continents.
Other explorers, as well as Columbus, did not bring it here, it was going on for centuries before.
As our bible tells us, nothing has changed since the fall of man, and Cain killing Abel. It’s why we all need Jesus, or at least to admit all people have ability for harming or evil toward others.
The tribes have TWO GREAT DAYS to call their own. They earned them and no one can take them away.
Aug 10, 1680 Pueblo Revolt.
June 25, 1876 Little Big Horn.
But n-o-O-o.They want to glom onto Columbus day in which the tribes did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO BE REMEMBERED FOR.
And if Columbus had never sailed, the New World would still have been found in 1500 by Pedro Alvares Cabral.
I didnt realize Pastor Bill is not here still. Hope he is enjoying eternity with God.
15 years ago, I too was more unaware of history of peoples and how many of us were taught wrongly about it all.
Stop. You’re both right.
I agree with you that Columbus Day is about Columbus and, for Americans at least, about the US.
To people who hate Columbus, it’s anti a lot of things, America included.
one of my points was, why should anyone hate Columbus any more than any other person on earth?
I been reading up on many peoples lately and it’s eye opening the stuff that went on and still goes on. So many lies taught in school, and as we know carried on verbally in society. Thankfully the ability to search on internet finds some truths.
We should. Thanks for asking.
Happy Columbus Day!
Ferdinand and Isabella were the Spanish monarchs who bankrolled the Columbus expedition. They also did a lot of kicking the moslems out of Spain in the 15th century. They are probably hated as much as Columbus himself.
I went to some National Park ranger talks in Glacier. They had some American Indians speaking of their ancestors and how they lived on the buffalo, followed the herds around and used every bit of the buffalo they killed. Before the horse they had no way to kill a buffalo, they were too big and mean. They would set a fire to the prairie and stampede the herd off of a cliff. I wonder how they were able to use every bit of the buffalo they killed when they had a big pile of dead buffalos at the bottom of a cliff. It wasn’t until they got horses that they were able to separate a smaller group of buffalo from a big herd and just kill a couple of them instead of a couple hundred. The buffalo owe Columbus a debt of gratitude for bringing horses to the new world. At least up until the railroads were established.
I’m with you on this one.
A message from President Trump:
“HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY TO ALL, in particular our great Italian American Community which was forced to suffer as the Radical Left Dumocrats, Socialists, and Communists rampaged through our cities and towns ripping down almost all of the beautiful statutes of Christopher Columbus,” Trump said. “Well, those days of plunder are over, and the statues are back, more magnificent than ever.”
Let’s not celebrate men like Columbus as we celebrate men like Martin Luther King.
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