Sad is it not that every Columbus Day is the same? Christopher Columbus is attacked. His statues are defiled. Public monuments in his honor are threatened or displaced. Every year, more states and cities change Columbus Day to “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” or “Native Americans’ Day.” And left-wing nihilist professors besmirch the once-revered beau ideal who discovered America in 1492. Should Columbus be vilified instead of honored? Was he really a villain? Should we believe these attacks on his good name and character? Christopher Columbus is treated as a scapegoat. In other words, Columbus is a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency.
I do believe it to be more fact than fiction that the liberal Left's real target is Christianity, which formed Western civilization. Christians and all men of good quality should have no compunction about celebrating Columbus Day. We need to fight back, giving due honor to this extraordinary man who spread the Gospel and civilized a hemisphere.
Following Columbus’ first voyage, he gives us the reason to continue celebrating: “Let Christ rejoice upon earth as he does in heaven, to witness the coming salvation of so many people, heretofore given over to perdition. Let us rejoice for the exaltation of our faith, as well as
for the augmentation of our temporal prosperity, in which not only Spain but all Christendom shall participate.”
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