toldailytopic: Christopher Columbus: hero or zero?

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toldailytopic: Christopher Columbus: hero or zero?

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[fool]

He was an explorer.

 

[rainee]

A man who helped translate the NIV gave a sermon once entitled:
"Isaac - Hero to Zero?"

Do you think being part of a great thing and never part of another great thing after that is bad?

 

[Silent Hunter]

He was an explorer.

He was an entrepreneur.

 

[Nathon Detroit]

He is credited with discovering cigar smoking. For that alone.... hero.

 

[OMEGA]

Christopher Columbus is just another Pawn in the vast plan

for George Bush's and Dick Cheney's Dominance of the World.:chuckle::sheep:

 

[The Berean]

He was an explorer.

Yet he sought and finally received massive government support for his venture. What a :Commie:

:chuckle:

 

[Silent Hunter]

He is credited with discovering cigar smoking. For that alone.... hero.

. . . and lung cancer.
. . . and tongue cancer.
. . . and lip cancer.
. . . and throat cancer.
. . . and bad breath.

Yeah, for all that he's :first: . . .

NOT!

 

[The Berean]

Christopher Columbus is just another Pawn in God's vast plan

for George Bush's and Dich Cheney's Dominance of the World.

Actually, he was more of a rook or a bishop IMO.

 

[Daedalean's_Sun]

Leif Ericson discovered North America about 400 years before he did and yet Christopher usually gets the credit.

 

[chrysostom]

some here think it doesn't matter what you do

 

[Sherman]

He is credited with discovering cigar smoking. For that alone.... hero.

Hero.

Christopher Columbus is hated by the left. That alone make him a hero too...

 

[zoo22]

Christopher Columbus is hated by the left. That alone make him a hero too...

Why?

 

[chrysostom]

Why?

we don't know why they do what they do

 

[Memento Mori]

Leif Ericson discovered North America about 400 years before he did and yet Christopher usually gets the credit.

That's because there's no holiday named after Ericson. Everyone remembers Columbus because he's got a day to his name. lain:

 

[Buzz]

I discovered something he failed to, and may have wished he had.

 

[Daedalean's_Sun]

Christopher Columbus is hated by the left. [/COLOR]

He is? Well, that's news to me.

 

[Nick M]

Leif Ericson discovered North America about 400 years before he did and yet Christopher usually gets the credit.

And he did not share what he knew with others. Columbus is a hero. He proved the Bible right about the earth being a sphere suspended in space, and not flat like the the heathen and RCC claimed.

 

[zoo22]

And he did not share what he knew with others. Columbus is a hero. He proved the Bible right about the earth being a sphere suspended in space, and not flat like the the heathen and RCC claimed.

Columbus didn't prove the world was round, nor did he intend to. It's a myth. People already knew the earth was round. The RCC didn't claim the earth was flat when Columbus made his trip. They said that it would take him too long to sail to India (which is what he wanted to do) and survive. They were right. Columbus had his calculations of the circumference of the earth completely wrong. Luckily he found some unexpected land before they all died. He thought he was in Asia.

 

[Town Heretic]

Christopher Columbus is hated by the left. That alone make him a hero...

Why?

Because he voted Republican. lain: