Should Columbus Day be celebrated?

[phk]

Columbus and a small group of treasure-seekers landed on a group of islands populated by a peaceful tribe called the Arawak and another called the Taino. Columbus told them to give him gold, and they did, since there was so much. But then Columbus started demanding so much gold that the Indians couldn't keep up. So Columbus got angry. After chopping off the hands of anyone who didn't fulfill their "quota" of gold, he began to hang large groups of Indian men, women and children and to burn others to death. Plantations soon sprang up across the Caribbean, which were worked by Indian slaves. In four decades, the entire Indian population of the Caribbean had been wiped out.

[phk]

Yes, there's no reason to stop celebrating Columbus Day.

The politically correct attack on Columbus Day has made me want to celebrate it even more.

I don't buy into this America-hating left wing drivel that idealizes the Indians and excoriates Europeans without exception.  Follow that to its logical conclusion, and we should all leave, and turn things back over to the Indians.  The truth is no doubt far more complex than either the (a) Columbus was great brigade; or (b) Columbus was a genocidal murderer.

Attacks on Columbus by left-wing liberals are ultimately attacks on America itself.

So we should celebrate the Holocaust as well? I mean we should if were going to celebrate genocide in the name of Christianity.

[phk]

Well, you know, cultures are made up of people, so blaming the events on cultural acceptance instead of human nature doesn't change much.

As far as Christianity not promoting killing:

Deuteronomy 20:10-17
"When you draw near a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it. And if its answer to you is peace and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labour for you and shall serve you. But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it; and when the Lord your God gives it into your hand you shall put all its male to the sword, but the women and the little ones, the cattle, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as booty for yourself; and you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemy, which the Lord God has given to you. Thus you shall do to all the cities which are far from you, which are not cities of the nations here. In the cities of these people that the Lord your God gives you an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes but you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittites and the Amoriotes, the Canaanites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded."

Deuteronomy 7:2
"and when the Lord your God gives then [the enemies] over to you, and you defeat them; then you must utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, and show no mercy to them..."

Numbers 31:7
They warred against Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses, and slew every male.

Numbers 31:17
[Moses said to them] "... Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by lying with him..."

I Samuel 15:1-3
And Samuel said to Saul, "The LORD sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore hearken to the words of the LORD. Thus says the LORD of hosts, `I will punish what Am'alek did to Israel in opposing them on the way, when they came up out of Egypt. Now go and smite Am'alek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.'"

II Kings 2:23-24
He [Elisha] went up from there to Bethel; and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, "Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!" And he turned around and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out from the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.

And I can go on and on and on.

[phk]

Columbus Day should be celebrated just to piss off politically correct a&$holes.  I never cared about Columbus Day until these people started attacking it.  Now, I go to a Columbus Day parade every year.

I'll be sure to be there next year.