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I'm glad Christopher Columbus did what he did. I'd not be alive since he discovered the island my mother is from Trinidad, named it as such for the Holy Trinity. That's what I was taught about him. Thankfully the Spanish abandoned Trinidad when they didn't find gold though and left it to the British! The whole phenomena of Christopher Columbus opening the new world to European colonialism has its good and bad. One has to overlook the bad in light of the fact that christianity went around the world with colonialism (most of the time).

What did Columbus have to say about his discovery of America? We will let his words tell you the truth:

"It was the Lord who put into my mind (I could feel his hand upon me) the fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me....
There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures....
I said that I would state my reasons: I hold alone to the sacred and Holy Scriptures, and to the interpretations of prophecy given by certain devout persons....
I am a most unworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvelous presence. For the execution of the journey to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. It is simply the fulfillment of what Isaiah had prophesied....
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. The working out of all things has been assigned to each person by the Lord, but it all happens according to His sovereign will, even though he gives advice. He lacks nothing that it is in the power of men to give Him. Oh, what a gracious Lord, who desires that people should perform for Him those things which He holds Himself responsible! Day and night, moment by moment, everyone should express the most devoted gratitude to Him."

Libro de las profecias (Columbus' Book of Prophecies)