Columbus was actually a really great guy!

[Archae]

Another history dropout...

FRC: People Dislike Columbus Because He Shared The Gospel With Those He Enslaved

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Tuesday, 10/14/2014 2:40 pm

The Family Research Council knows the real reason people criticize Christopher Columbus: It’s because he was a Christian! In fact, according to FRC Vice President Dr. Kenyn Cureton, Columbus was such a great Christian that he even shared the Gospel with the people he enslaved.

On “Washington Watch” yesterday, Cureton said that Columbus had good intentions since he was trying to find gold to fund a potential war with Muslims over control of Jerusalem and spread the Gospel to indigenous peoples.

He argued that Columbus only enslaved native peoples instead of killing them because he was a merciful leader (and he needed them to search for gold to help defeat the Muslims). He also said that Columbus defended the Arawaks from cannibals, a contested claim. Columbus also enslaved the Arawaks along with thousands of others.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/frc-people-dislike-columbus-because-he-shared-gospel-those-he-enslaved#sthash.5iBu5A1W.dpuf

[el_bryanto]

1. People like to be flattered - it's one of our more prominent traits

This guy will probably make a good living telling Conservative Christians that they know the truth about Columbus while everybody else is an idiot for denying it. People like feeling special and heroic and smart - and this combines all three. And they don't even have to do anything. They just are heroic because they don't buy the line about Columbus.

Obviously there's a parallel to how much some pat themselves on the back for knowing what an asshole Columbus was.

Bryant

[underpants]

2. What part of what gospel covers hacking people's arms of when they missed the gold quota

Can someone help me with that?

[cyberswede]

3. Yeah...sharing the gospel...as you cut off people's hands and make them wear them around their necks

How merciful of him.

[Aristus]

4. Of course he shared the Gospel with those he enslaved.

All slavers do that.

"Slavery is your divinely-ordained lot in life. To oppose slavery in general and your own enslavement in particular is to go against God. Now do you want that? Do you want to go to Hell? Do you think this is easy for me? God has decreed I shall be your master, and benefit from your unpaid labor. That's my lot in life. I just have to bear up under that burden, just as you must under yours."

The Gospel According To Slave Drivers...

[LondonReign2]

5. Ahhh, funding a religious war = good intentions

Now I see

[Arugula Latte]

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