Posted on 10/14/2013 8:10:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
There was once a member of the south hating clique named m. Espinola
Who had been another nick before
Obviously gay on his homepage
Adored deco imagery and haberdash
A satorialist
Entertaining actually...I liked him...all things considered
Maybe FF knows him?
Well, you never know....maybe I’ll look up his posts. Might be fun reading.
It’s indeed bad not to tell the whole story. Don’t idolize the man. He got egotistical and did things that his own church considered so bad that they had him brought back to Spain in irons.
Yet if we looked only at the bad, we’d be doomed not to honor anybody for anything. Columbus’ voyage encouraged Spain to continue sending people to the Americas. Their Christian practice, flawed as its Spanish Catholic implementation was, was what later forced the Mayans to stop their human sacrifices.
Not too many conquerers would even have as benign an overall impact as Columbus’ proved to be. If Columbus’ church hadn’t been looking over his shoulder, imagine the tyranny and carnage possible.
Columbus may not have even been the first, though he was the spearhead of the first significant one. Anyhow the capable ocean voyaging technology existed by the time that "in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue." That's a lot of years ago.
I was under the impression that Columbus was a Portuguese Converso.
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I thought he was from Genoa, sailing under a Spanish flag.
Quite a few scholars believe him to have been a Converso, secretly Jewish, from Portugal.
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