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Offline Marys Anawim

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Columbus day change
« on: October 16, 2019, 10:35:31 AM »
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    • My husband and I recently  read about changing columbus day with indigenous peoples day...so the thing is that really I believe people are ignorant about history...historically people conquered other peoples through war...even King David did so in order to establish Gids people in Palestine aka Israel...now this is just the way it is...this theme is throughout all history so we believe this is just another way to demonize anything or anyone that stands for Christianity...I do not believe Columbus was perfect but the insanity of today's culture of niceness and "love" makes it seem as though he was some kind of criminal. There were things i disagree with with him but ultimately he did pave the way for Catholicism to come from Europe and bring salvation to the pagan indigenous people and it just displays the paganism that has invaded our society. These are my thoughts on that situation. 
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    Offline Bonaventure

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    Re: Columbus day change
    « Reply #1 on: October 16, 2019, 11:42:02 AM »
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    Re: Columbus day change
    « Reply #2 on: October 16, 2019, 11:46:42 AM »
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    • Quote from: Marys Anawim on October 16, 2019, 10:35:31 AM
    ...this is just another way to demonize anything or anyone that stands for Christianity...

    Correction (and more important): Getting rid of Columbus Day is in fact demonizing Catholicism. 

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    Offline Stubborn

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    Re: Columbus day change
    « Reply #3 on: October 16, 2019, 12:07:59 PM »
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    • Quote from: Bonaventure on October 16, 2019, 11:46:42 AM
    Getting rid of Columbus Day is in fact demonizing Catholicism.  
    This. They've been demonizing him in classrooms for the last 40 years, and before then in many places.


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    Fr. Leonard Feeney, 1952, Bread of Life:
    "I always wonder how anyone studying American history could fail to notice – supposing he were just interested in knowing the plain, historical facts about Columbus – that one of the islands Christopher Columbus discovered he named "San Salvador." San Salvador means Holy Saviour! Why would not a person ask himself about that? Why was the first-named island in the new world called Holy Saviour Island?

    Columbus crossed the ocean on a boat named "The Santa Maria." Is a girl, Mary, remembered from the first century up to 1492 a hard girl to find out about? Is there any information about the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, a man in the United States could not get in case he wanted to know? How much does any American student read about Our Blessed Lady?"  
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    Offline Marys Anawim

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    Re: Columbus day change
    « Reply #4 on: October 16, 2019, 02:09:47 PM »
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    • Quote from: Bonaventure on October 16, 2019, 11:46:42 AM
    Correction (and more important): Getting rid of Columbus Day is in fact demonizing Catholicism.  

    When I say Christiamity I am not referring to the Catholic faith...not protestants. I would think that we as Catholics should know the true meaning of Christianity is Catholics...but I could understand why you would state that with the state of the church and world today.
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    Re: Columbus day change
    « Reply #5 on: October 16, 2019, 03:21:48 PM »
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    • Quote from: Marys Anawim on October 16, 2019, 02:09:47 PM
    When I say Christiamity I am not referring to the Catholic faith...not protestants. I would think that we as Catholics should know the true meaning of Christianity is Catholics...but I could understand why you would state that with the state of the church and world today.

    I think you meant to say above that you are referring exclusively to the Catholic faith when you refer to 'Christianity.' I suppose, in this specific forum, that can be inferred.  But in today's day and age, with the 30,000+ Protestant sects loosely throwing the 'Christianity' term around, its meaning has been watered down to the point I've just found it easier to stop using it, instead replacing it with 'Catholic' in each instance.    
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