Posted on 10/13/2019 10:16:07 PM PDT by Salvation
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Very nicely done thanks for posting...
I would quibble that vikings were not precisely illiterate although nothing remotely like Italians or Spaniards half a millennia later, Vikings did have a runic collection of representative symbols for writing
I was raised being taught Columbus was looking for a shorter route to India
Myth 10 reminds me of my lastest near death experience where an extended Ventricular Tachycardia episode as I slipping into darkness I verbalized in my mind and possibly out loud something to similar effect that Columbus is said to have uttered
But I felt some shame feeling I was actually appropriating Christ’s own words and thst was a bit presumptuous
Luke 23/46
Nonetheless my heart regained normal beating and I was drenched in sweat and a bit discombobulated
Funny how you act when tottering on deaths door...not my first rodeo btw but this one came with zero warning
Thank you for posting this.
There was a screed posted here at FR a couple of days ago that repeated many of these same lies.
I thought something smelled fishy.
Thanks for the rebuttal.
Refreshing! Thanks for posting!
Columbus was a hero!
The maps Columbus used were gained from the Portuguese Library in Lisbon. They were State secrets of the time. The quake in 1755 destroyed the Library and its contents. No one today knows what the true state of knowledge about the world that the Portuguese knew. In other words, CC was not sailing blind.
So is the story of blankets that had smallpox in them given to the Indians to try and wipe them out also false?
“He was a good Christian Italian like me!! :)”
I am as well. Also deeply disturbed by the name change to ‘indigenous people day’. How about changing MLK day, Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, ad nauseum.
Humorist Stan Freberg cleared up all confusion about Columbus and his discovery of America:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qiqdb518wZ8
Columbus could have waited a year before sailing because then the poem would still rhyme with “boundless sea”.
;^)
Absolute biased fantasy history to hide reality, it is in conflict with their own written journals. Fortunately the Spanish were VERY good at keeping very detailed written records about their own “moral” methods of conquest and conversion to Christianity. There was a constant battle between the Conquistadors and the Church about their own methods of making the indigenous submit to absolute control and slavery. They did not ask nicely and say please...
For it to be true, the infected blankets would have to have been handled exclusively by smallpox survivors.
That was the British later against Pontiac, Captain Simeon Ecuyer. But Sir Jeffery Amherst also tossed the idea around as a useful weapon under the guise of “inoculation”.
Excellent. Thanks for the ping.
Thanks for this post.
Heading out to the parade shortly.
It was also alleged that he thought he was in India hence his calling the natives he met Indians; in his time India was called Hindustan.
Great rebuttal to fake-news anti-Christians !
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