KC Blogger Connects Columbus, Antisemitism & White Supremacy

In his latest missive, former newsman and faithful scribe Bill Tammeus argues an alternative perspective on the religious history of Western Civilization. 

Check the longstanding faith life implications and how it MIGHT impact the modern world . . .

"I think there is something else going on with this question of Columbus and Judaism. I detect an underlying fascination with (and/or repulsion of) Jewish people by non-Jews, most of which has ancient roots in the centuries-long anti-Jewish teachings of the Christian church . . . Eventually, anti-Judaism as a theological rejection of Jews provided ammunition for the creation of modern antisemitism, which is not so much theological in nature as it is racial, ethnic and economic, with its widespread lies about Jews controlling the world's economy . . . 

In the end, the question of whether Columbus was Jewish is nowhere near as important as how and why the 1493 "Doctrine of Discovery" from the Vatican provided solid cover for white European invaders to conquer what they ignorantly labeled the "new world," a name that suggests it didn't become real until white invaders discovered it. In the end, that document also provided much of the theological grounds for white supremacy."

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