Christopher Columbus?

Question

How do you view him? A godly man or evil, please give an explanation,

Just as I thought. None of you really know what you are talking about at all, you have let the society seep into your brains and are being ignorant and illogical. Sorry but that is the truth.

Steve, your cool bro.

And to the guy that said read his writings i have and that is not the conclusion i got, sorry...

Answer 1

He was a great sailor and very brave.
515 years later is not easy to emit a correct evaluation of his legacy. He make the best in the time of the Inquisition and the
Kingdoms. Some people maybe think he was a godly man but the truth is that he was only a sea man.

Note: Is interesting the way some people accused Columbus and Spain for the killing of Indians or genocide. A recent study of the DNA of the Puerto Ricans show the nearly 60% of the people has Taino ancestry. Do you know how many Indians live in Central and South America, Millions. Bolivia for example is a Indian country even the President Evo Morales is an Indian. The story will be very different if the English or the French reach first the New Word. Just look at the Indians reservations in the US.

Answer 2

Well I really didn't know him well enough to form a proper opinion
and he sure got a lot of credit for things he didn't do ..
For instance he did not really discover America .. that was Amerigo Vespucci ( note the similarities in the first names ... America - Amerigo)
HE did however take credit for it , but funny how could either one have discovered in when there were already people living here ... hmmmmmmmm that's funny huh ..
He was according to history not a very nice person ..
A little known fact about Columbus is that he destroyed an entire race of people from the Bahamas ..If thats what you call godly then what would be your definition of Hitler ?

Answer 3

Contrary to fouthlinctr's comment, tons of Columbus own writings and reports home are extant, and if you read his writings, he thanks god for the ease with which he slaughtered and enslaved the natives, and in the next breath discusses dividing the native women up as sex slaves for his soldiers. This is certainly in good OT Biblical form since it is exactly what Moses does in Numbers 31. But it's nothing Jesus would ever have countenanced, though it's the kind of behavior the church encouraged from the time it merged with the Roman state and became the state's whore and vice versa instead of the church of Jesus Christ.

The man who most Christians would claim on the voyage is Bartolome de las Casas, a historian who is hailed as the father of anti-imperialism and anti-racism. His account of the Columbus voyages and the treatment of the natives is your best view into just how Christian Chris Columbus was or was not not.

Answer 4

Godly:

“It was the Lord who put it into my mind . . . I could feel His hand upon me...There is no question
the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit because He comforted me with rays of marvelous illumination
from the Holy Scriptures...No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our
Savior if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. The gospel must still be preached
to so many lands in such a short time. This is what convinces me.” Christopher Columbus (from his
diary, in reference to his discovery of “the New World”)

Answer 5

I view him as someone God used to teach doctrine about the Virgin Mary although he did not know it. Scripture has God on his throne across a great glassy sea. Christopher Columbus could not get to this New World across the great glassy sea by his begging from the King so he went to the Queen. She gave him her jewels (wisdom and graces) which he used to make the voyage. I believe this is one reason the Knights of Columbus are very devoted to the Virgin Mary

Answer 6

Born in or close to Genoa interior the autumn of 1451 the son of a grasp wool weaver he grew to grow to be an experienced mariner and a pragmatic businessman We study from his son Ferdinand that Columbus “grow to be properly-geared up, of extra effective than general stature, the face long, the cheeks particularly intense, his physique neither fat nor lean. He had an aquiline nostril and lightweight-colored eyes; his complexion too grow to be mild and tending to bright pink. In toddlers his hair grow to be blonde, yet while he reached the age of thirty, all of it grew to become white. In eating and eating, and interior the adornment of his guy or woman, he grow to be very reasonable and modest. He grow to be affable in communique with strangers and intensely friendly to participants of his better half and childrens, although with a definite gravity.” He spoke of the fasts of the church maximum faithfully, confessed and took the Sacrament in many situations, study the canonical workplaces like a member of a spiritual order and hated blasphemy and profane swearing. had little formal education, yet he grew to grow to be exceptionally sensible in languages, cosmography, and nautical technological awareness the newness of Columbus’s theory grow to be no longer that the earth grow to be around—each and every considerable geographer and student because of the fact the classic Greeks conventional a around earth, as did seamen and knowledgeable human beings of the time. incredibly, it grow to be that the earth grow to be no longer as some distance around as anybody believed.

Answer 7

An explorer who knew the earth was round and proved it.
A Godly man for his time. And if we don't like him we can all go back to where we came from. Any volunteers? Yes we all talk smart but when it comes time to go, who is going first?

Answer 8

Just plain stupid and to blame for the genocide of millions of Native Americans. He is also to blame for real Americans being called Indian and people still call the Natives 'Indian', how ignorant. Real Indians are in India. He ruined everything. He didn't discover the Americas or the U.S. either i still can't believe that is in history books and taught.

Answer 9

He's just a man that makes entertainment. Not sure what else to say.

Answer 10

He committed Genocide.

He bragged about getting more money for selling an 8 yr old child as a sex slave than if he had found gold.

Would have sold his own mother if anyone would have taken her.

Lousy navigator.

Religious freak.