A Truly Proper Opening Text?

[Durelin]

Are you willing to overlook all the genocides perpetrated by Columbus and his followers in the name of religion and glory?

If everyone else can overlook the countless murders perpetrated by those 'Native Americans,' yes. If everyone can overlook the horrors the Christians have been through over the centuries -- millennia! -- and focus only on the Jews! The thing is, we look from one side -- we must look from all sides! What was everyone doing! When you compare, these 'genocides' you speak of seem a little less horrid and unreasonable.

If Columbus had the courage to sail off into relatively uncharged waters, it was for greed. He just wanted to find a quicker route to the Indies, so that Spain would get rich quicker. That seeming courage stemmed from pure greed.

If he had the courage? You say it as if you doubt it as legitimacy. But you are certain that Columbus was a man entirely succumb by greed. I'm pretty sure there were much easier ways the man could have gotten rich, safe in Italy. If the man was able to entreat the king and queen of Spain to give him the means to sail... Wait...so that Spain would get rich quicker? The man was an Italian, he didn't care if Spain got rich. And even if he had, he wasn't seeking his own glory, but the glory of Spain. There is some honor in that. It sounds kind of like Boromir, if you want to continue to reference The Lord of the Rings.

-Durelin