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Columbus Day

8 Responses

1. Thom Says:
   October 12th, 2008 at 8:05 am

   It pains me to get a paid holiday in honor of mass genocide.

2. Ray from MN Says:
   October 12th, 2008 at 3:52 pm

   I suppose we should have just let them eat each other.

3. Thom Says:
   October 12th, 2008 at 7:13 pm

   All these red herrings, but I’m no fisherman!

   I speak to the treatment of the indigenous peoples, most pointedly the Arowak, by Columbus and his cohort.

4. Ronnie Says:
   October 13th, 2008 at 4:11 pm

   I’m an “indigenous person” and I like celebrating Columbus Day. We’re not celebrating the feast day of “Saint Columbus” anyway. The Canaanites sacrificing their children by burning them alive were just as thrilled by the incursions of the Israelites as the native peoples of the Americas were by the coming of the Europeans. Cultures clashed, blood ran. But He has not forgotten a single one of those who suffered so terribly then, any more than He has forgotten a single one of us! He drew a much higher and greater good out of that suffering–our God, the Living God, came to millions by it. He came to millions of our brothers and sisters who will bear the mark of baptism for eternity instead of the mark of original sin, to millions who were priveleged to receive Him personally in the Eucharist. So just ignore the modernist PC bull roar and enjoy the IDEA of Columbus “discovering” a new world. May God be pleased to help us all discover the new world of His kingdom.

5. Terry Nelson Says:
   October 13th, 2008 at 6:13 pm

   Ronnie - You’re a squaw! I have Native American blood too - Yay! My dad told me we were Iriquois. (Sp?)

   Ronnie knows me and would not be offended - would you hon?

6. Ronnie Says:
   October 13th, 2008 at 9:38 pm

   Nope! Not offended, LOL! Bye the way, are you related to Sitting Bull? Had to ask. It’s often the first thing people think to ask me when they don’t know what else to say to me–usually because some bigoted remark or other slipped their lips just moments before I mentioned my maternal heritage (hee, hee!)

   Now, this next part is way off topic from Columbus Day, but here’s the really fun part for Catholics . . . Chief Sitting Bull is truly our brother, in Christ! He received instruction personally from the local bishop and converted to Catholicism. When he died, it was very much in the pattern of Christ, an innocent man arrested and killed unjustly after a lifetime of service to his people. You can go to http://romanchristendom.blogspot.com/2008/07/catholic-sioux- chief-sitting-bull.html for an excellent bio, written by a Native American man who was a contemporary of Sitting Bull and knew him personally.

   Maybe in that context, we are back to Columbus, our brother in Christ. And remembering that we are truly in Christ, we can forgive the conquistadors who invaded the Americas, the U.S. soldiers who killed Sitting Bull, the Roman soldiers who abused and executed Jesus, the governments and religious fanatics and abortionists and gang members (and on and on adn on) who are killing the innocent in our own time.

7. Cathy Says:
   October 14th, 2008 at 12:14 pm

   Thom,

   Well then go to work and take that holiday pay and donate it to an Indian cause.

8. Thom Says:
   October 14th, 2008 at 1:57 pm

   Cathy, government agencies were closed.

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