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Is Columbus Day a celebration of Native American massacre?
Columbus Day is supposed to be the celebration of Christopher Columbus discovering America, but how much of the holiday promotes what happened during colonization? Many people say Columbus Day is a celebration of imperialism, racism and colonization.
When Christopher Columbus and the Spanish Conquistadores engaged in the conquest of the Americas, they did do so under the direction of the Pope, and their slaughter and subjugation of all natives was justified through Christian theology. When Spanish conquerors came into contact with new groups of people they were to read an article to them, in Spanish, the Requerimiento.
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The Requerimiento stated that all men were descended from Adam and Eve, that the Catholic Church had been granted the right by God to rule all people, and that there was no way to the authority of the Pope. Those who resisted would be slaughtered or enslaved.
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Of all these nations God our Lord gave charge to one man, called St. Peter, that he should be Lord and Superior of all the men in the world, that all should obey him, and that he should be the head of the whole human race, wherever men should live, and under whatever law, sect, or belief they should be; and he gave him the world for his kingdom and jurisdiction.
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No. The strong defeat the weak everywhere. America has been a great country for decades. We should celebrate how we got here.
Make it simple, just celebrate “Leif Erikson Day” on the 9th of October. He got here first, an dI don’t believed he slaughtered any natives either.
More anti-Vatican propaganda from yet another warped dullard.
Roger Williams lived with native American Indians for over 40 years. In his book on New England Indians, he said the favorite pastimes of the Indian tribes (such as the Narragansetts, Connecticuts, etc.) were ambushing and killing each other, raping each others women and stealing each others goods and foodstuffs. So much for the malarkey myth of the noble innocent savage.
Columbus was a courageous yet falsely maligned explorer who helped bring Christian civility to a New World occupied for the most part by pagan barbarians.