A thought:
"A hundred castellaneos are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there is plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten are now in demand"
-Letter by Columbus quoted in Williams, "Documents of West Indian History," 1:36-37
Christopher Columbus used his Christianity to justify statements like this. He advocated the rape of 9 and 10 year old girls as a way to entice people to invest their time in his voyages. Who should be more ashamed of this, the Christians whose faith he bastardized, or the Americans (and I am one) who STILL revere him as a hero?
Your thoughts before we all go home from work?
2007-08-14 10:13:07 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Didn't you rip this off from the supposed junior high schooler that had a talk with his teacher?
Columbus couldn't use the Bible to justify any such thing, since no such behavior (raping 9 year old girls) is in the Bible. You're confusing it with the Koran, where Mohamed raped a 9 year old.
2007-08-14 10:17:35 · answer #1 · answered by CJ 6 · 3⤊ 4⤋
1. The quote you give does not, in and of itself, condone the rape of young girls as you suggest. It merely states that these young girls are in high demand, much as they are today, and that there were those around who dealt in selling them.
2. Columbus did not and could not use Christian beliefs to justify immorality and sin because the Bible clearly condemns such behaviour, and the Bible is Christianity's book which tells us how to live a life pleasing to God -among other things.
3. I don't know who, if anyone, actually considers Columbus a hero. He is merely credited with discovering America. That hardly makes him a hero. He is simply one of many important parts of history.
2007-08-14 10:26:00 · answer #2 · answered by utuseclocal483 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Christopher Columbus was pretty much a terrible person all round. I don't particularly feel ashamed to learn of this since I have not ever held him in high regard either as a Christian or as an American. Not to mention the fact that you can't exactly discover something where millions of people already live.
2007-08-14 10:19:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
A "Hero"??? Surely you jest... A man who had the navigational skills of a Pet Rock and also believed that the world was FLAT? Small wonder he claimed "Christianity"! If the current trend in American presidents continues, you Humans are quite lucky that Columbus IS diseased; otherwise, he'd be a "shoe-in" to be the NEXT American president!
2007-08-14 10:28:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You know, I've been an American for nearly six decades. In all that time, having traveled to all fifty states and the territories of Guam and Puerto Rico, I cannot ever recall coming accross a fellow American who considers Columbus a hero.
2007-08-14 10:19:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I don't think Christians need feel ashamed because of Columbus claiming christianity for himself. All of us fail to live up to God's standards in one way or another (or several). His poor morals are not supported by Christianity and therefore Christianity does not need to answer for them.
People who revere Columbus (or anyone else), ignorant of their true character should wake up and get better informed.
2007-08-14 10:22:33 · answer #6 · answered by sharky 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know much about Christopher Columbus, but GOD Raised up America through a Contract made with the Pilgrams.
GOD needed a Land that HE could send HIS Workers from---to go Ye into All the World, and Preach the Gospel.
That is what America was For.
An Island to Reach out into All the World.
2007-08-14 10:18:18 · answer #7 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Ugg, I am so sick of christianity using this or that thing, related to situations of their times, to justify or condem whatever they FEEL is right for themselves.
I am a down right loyal American. And greatful for Columbus finding America, but that don't mean I remember him for anything else he said or did.
Christians are sprawling out of control, mostly because there is no way religion can be based under one set of rules.
2007-08-14 10:31:26 · answer #8 · answered by Patience Edmondson 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I dont revere him as a hero.. a hero of what exactly? He was not the first to discover America and there were already people here so he discovered nothing that wasn't already done. Secondly I dont feel ashamed because of some guy I'm not related to did some bull crap waaay back when.
2007-08-14 10:20:02 · answer #9 · answered by Indiana Raven 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Christopher Columbus is not different from and other "hero" we celebrate. They teach us Rousseau''s way of thinking (when he abandoned his 5 children to death) and Darwin's theories (when he was a racist). It's obvious that Columbus was wrong, but "finding America" seems to be a "major" accomplishment that outweighs his..faults. That is not my opinion but that's probably subconciously why we don't talk about Columbus' methods of populating land. And truthfully, I didn't know that.
2007-08-14 10:24:44 · answer #10 · answered by Ashley 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Thank you for this information first of all.
Now, I am and will always be a soldier of Jesus Christ regardless of those who have highly disappointed me. I have just now been knocked down by this information.
My faith still stands in the One who gives me eternal life.
Chris Columbus will have to answer to God for what he did as will we all.
As far as being ashamed. I am sad about this ordeal , but I have no personal shame as my family didn't make it here from England until 1801. But wish these truths (if in fact it is) should be taught in US history for our children to learn from our past mistakes.
2007-08-14 10:25:33 · answer #11 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋