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THE CASE FOR CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM

Eric Martindale • Dec 19, 2023

Should White conservatives be associated with racism? This question is on the minds of a lot of people, especially every election season. Older liberal Jews and Blacks are absolutely convinced that “conservative” is a value association of Christianity, family values, national pride, and White supremacy.  


If you had mentioned the term “family values” to the late Ruth Bader Ginsberg, she would have immediately envisioned the corrupt value association of “God, Family, Country, and White race” in her mind, and she would have gritted her teeth with anger and disgust. “Not on my watch”, she thought. This was the guiding force behind Ginsberg’s vote on many SCOTUS cases that profoundly changed our whole society. To this day, liberals in her age group have the same knee-jerk reaction, especially if they are Jewish. To the political Left, this is the rise of some much-feared Christian Nationalism, as if Jesus’ own words were racist and incendiary. They don’t realize that Christian Nationalism actually entails the complete and unwavering support of the US Constitution, including everything in the Bill of Rights that protects all peoples of all backgrounds and all beliefs. 


Blacks also want to vote against the corrupt value association. They do in every election, and it decides most elections. Over 95% of Black women vote Democrat, including many that are devout Christians. The old narrative is the reason.


Conservatives are really caught in a bind on this. We’ve cycled through numerous responses, and none are able to convince large numbers of Blacks and immigrants that it’s not true. The Leftists know that no conservative has ever crafted a good answer to the charges, so it’s their number one attack strategy. There is a way out of this mess. 

First let’s start with the truth bomb --- The value association of Christianity, Family Values, National Pride, and White Supremacy was exactly what the Ku Klux Klan stood for in the 1920’s. It’s been breaking down in phases since then. We start by openly stating that it was true. Truth and honesty are always the way to go. It’s simply glorious for the racism to diminish, but the collapse of the old value association has been very detrimental to Family Values, Christianity, and basic love of country.

It’s time for conservatives to make a clean break with the racism of the past in order to create a broader coalition of people, and to reverse the decline of family and religion. We need to take back America from the communist and atheist subversives that have taken control of the once-respectable Democratic Party. 


The two parties were once a whole lot closer than the giant rift that divides us now. The main partisan differences used to be the level of taxation and social services, and some labor v. union matters. Christian Republicans feel these are all fair topics of discussion. The intensity of modern culture war issues simply didn’t exist in the 1960’s, except on the very fringe Left. Remember those young hippies who protested, but had no real power, and held no elected offices. They were 10% of the population, at best. Democrats holding office back then didn’t hate America, and they didn’t demonize our history. Now that fringe Left from the 1960’s controls the Democratic Party, and they hold many high elected positions. Even worse, they control the media and social media, and Big Tech, and our schools and universities. Among their ranks are a great many artists and entertainers. And they’ve brainwashed and indoctrinated most of our teens and young adults, easily another 15% of the population. The situation is extremely dire. The problem is even infiltrating into our military. The political equation has to change, or all is lost for “The West”.

Everything is at stake, our Faith, our country, our family values, our entire history, our economy, and even our personal freedom. They label us the “deplorables”. The hate against us is so venomous that at some point we are simply going to be rounded up and incarcerated. They’ve already incarcerated thousands of us, over the January 6th “Insurrection”. How do we stop this? The hate against us cannot prevail, or even advance, if we are declaring a new value system focused on Race Unity. God, Family, and Country isn’t for White people, it’s for everyone.


Republicans need to start the healing process by openly identifying the old value association, and condemning it. Then we create a new race-unity conservative value association that INCLUDES Blacks and Immigrants.


Blaming racism on long-ago Democrats doesn’t work. It’s well-known that a whole lot of them switched parties and became Republicans. This trend started with the legendary racist Sen. Strom Thurmond, and it played out over 30 years. The Blacks know it, and we conservatives lose credibility when we try to talk around it. Blacks, especially older Black women, hate those racists that used to be Democrats, but are now Republicans, AS IF THOSE RACISTS ARE STILL ALIVE. Few of them are still alive, and none of them currently determine what the GOP stands for.


The best way to reach the hearts and souls of conservative Black Christians who vote Democrat is the explain, in great detail, how the legacy of racism has harmed, fractured, and discredited Christianity, causing it’s decline. That’s the central problem. What’s at stake is Christianity itself, and the cultural legacy of “The West”. 


The fate of our nation is extremely important, but it is secondary to the fate of Christianity and “The West”. The partisan political implications, meaning Republicans versus Democrats, are the third level of importance. 

Blacks really need to know that White Conservatives are completely abandoning racism of all kinds. To accomplish this, the Truth Bomb has to go deeper. It has to really lay out the problem, absolutely condemn it, and then completely reverse it. Are you ready? Let’s identify how White conservatives were racist in the 1920’s. Racism was literally one of the four pillars of being conservative.  


OLD CONSERVATIVE VALUE REGIME, 1924

GOD and JESUS

FAMILY VALUES

COUNTRY

WHITE RACE


Do any conservatives out there today identify with that value regime? No, and you better not. It is an affront to Christianity, and to the belief that all people, all races, are equal in the eyes of God. That KKK value regime is completely beyond the thinking of modern conservatives.

Christianity cannot stand for racism in any form, period. That is not the Will of God. That is not the Gospel of Jesus. This has to be totally repudiated by modern conservatives, unequivocally. Everyone, all races, all peoples, are the children of God. Those KKK racists may have called themselves Christian, but they were not following Christian ideas. They were absolutely wrong.


The racism of the KKK and the slaveholders that preceded them has discredited Christianity. It has pushed people away from God and Jesus, it has caused a greater separation of Church and State, and it has prompted millions of Blacks to leave Christianity. Some left for Islam and alternative Faiths, and others left for New World Order atheism. 


Overall, tens of millions of people, including White people, have left God and Jesus over the association of Christians with racism. Christianity has declined. And with the decline of religion, government has come to replace church and family. This has hurt everyone, especially the Black community. When there is no father in the home to raise the children, the mother is basically marrying the government. Marrying the government locks in their Democrat vote. That’s why the inner cities are called “The Democratic Plantation”, and that’s why promoting family values and traditional marriage is a death sentence for the Democratic Party. The best of all voices against the God, Family, Country, and Racism are the drag queens. This is literally the message they preach to our children, along with the LGBTQ agenda. The pieces of the puzzle are being exposed.  

Some Blacks have converted to Islam or alternative religions which tell them that Christianity is “a racist White religion of the colonizers”. Even Latino’s are falling into this pattern. This is why alternative religions are always left-leaning, and they always will be. Many Muslims want to enflame racial divisions in America to encourage more Blacks and Latino’s to abandon Jesus and “the racist Whites”, and to join with them. It might come with a smile and a warm greeting, but it reflects the dangerous partnership of Islam and political Leftism in America today. Of note, this is not the true expression of Islam. At the very core of its teachings, Islam and it’s Sharia Law are ultra-conservative, and completely at odds with Leftism, the LGBTQ agenda, and Communism.  

For at least 100 years, classic liberals have been fighting the old conservative racist value regime by opposing the old four pillars of society. They didn’t just oppose the racism, they opposed Christianity, family values, and love of country. Conservatives have never understood this. They don’t understand what the other side is thinking, and how the other side is crafting their political message. This was all thoroughly explained to me when I was a Democrat, and when I was active in community organizing. I remember being told that I need to be a liberal, and that all the opposition interest groups work together and support each other so they can win elections for the Democrats. Now I’m an ex-Democrat who knows exactly what they are doing. 


We conservatives have blamed “communism”, but this is not correct. The first decision people have is to challenge and then reject the old four pillars of society, and then they turned to communism as an alternative. Radical Muslims like Ilhan Omar are politically aligned with Leftists simply because they have the same foe. Radical Muslims and Leftists actually despise each other. 

Now it’s 2023, and the pendulum simply can’t swing any further left. It has reached an absurdity on every culture war issues. You name the issue, and the position of the Left has become extreme, ridiculous, and unsustainable. The Left has successfully destroyed God, family, and Country to the point that society can no longer function. We’re at the max level of chaos and disorder right now. The pendulum is full Left.

The pendulum is poised to swing back towards a new value regime supporting God, family, and Country. To give the swing the greatest possible energy, I specifically want it to add Race Unity as one of its core concepts.


NEW CONSERVATIVE VALUE REGIME, 2024

GOD AND JESUS

FAMILY VALUES

COUNTRY

RACE UNITY


That looks beautiful. It is beautiful. This is what I call Christian Nationalism.  


But we’re not done. What I am describing in this next section is so cringeworthy that nobody writes about it. Do your own internet search on the American Caste System, and you’ll find almost nothing. You might find information describing aspects of it, but never using that term. 


THERE WAS AN AMERICAN CASTE SYSTEM


The old conservative value regime of God, Family, Country, and White Supremacy was structural racism. It was just like the caste system in India, or Adolf Hitler creating tiers of racial desirability with Aryan peoples on top. Here are the caste systems of India, Nazi Germany, and Latin America. 


Everyone hates structural racism. Latinos hate it, Asians hate it, Intellectuals and Liberals hate it, and Blacks are absolutely terrified by it. That was the Ku Klux Klan. The “Untouchables” in the American Caste System were the Blacks. They were the bottom level. Here’s the American Caste System, in the 1920’s


  • TIER ONE: High society people, mostly of English or Dutch ancestry, but including entrepreneurs rising out of Tier Two. They were big business owners, Wall Street tycoons, doctors, and lawyers. Some were wealthy landowners via inheritance. They often belonged to country clubs, and had sprawling estates. A prime example is the Bush family, or the Howell’s from Gilligan’s Island.
  • TIER TWO: English and Dutch who were not wealthy, and other White Christians of northern European background, such as Scottish, Welch, French, and Scandinavian. Tier Two also included the average White American, at that time, with multiple northern European ancestries. People in Tier 2 were accepted as full members of society, and were granted all rights and privileges regardless of income (except country club membership). They just weren’t as special as the ruling elite. Germans were in and out of Tiers Two and Three, due to world wars, and the changing geopolitical situation.
  • TIER THREE: Catholics, Jews, Greeks, Armenians, Native Americans, Hispanics, and Asians. My explanation here is flawed and simplistic, as this tier had multiple sublevels, and it was in constant flux over time as groups jockeyed with each other for position. Some of these groups were broadly tolerated, but not considered equal to Tier Two, while Sicilians were subjected to horrendous discrimination, including redlining. https://italoamericano.org/sicilian-immigrants/ The Kennedy family resented being stuck in Tier Three despite their economic success, and this resentment fueled their liberalism.
  • TIER FOUR: Blacks were the equivalent of the Untouchables in the Hindu caste system. They were so “untouchable” that they had separate bathrooms and water fountains, they were not allowed to shop or dine with Whites, and they had to sit in the back of the bus. Black people were considered sexually untouchable, and any interracial relationship was taboo. Many States had laws against interracial marriage. Some parents would disown their children over such a marriage. 

The caste system is the actual history of America. This article describes aspects of it, but doesn’t use the term: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/28/untouchables-caste-system-us-race-martin-luther-king-india


Many people are in denial. Compounding the denial situation is that the 1st and 2nd tiers have reproduced at below replacement level, while Tier 3 has grown exponentially in population. People whose grandparents were in the 3rd and 4th tiers typically don’t understand the socioeconomic level of their family roots. 


The American Caste System did not originate in the 1920’s. It may have peaked then with the KKK, but it goes back to colonial times when the rift between working-class Scottish immigrants and the ruling English fueled the American Revolution. The caste system was still quite strong in 1960 when John F. Kennedy’s Irish Catholic background was a major factor holding back votes. 


The American Caste System has been slowly breaking down since it peaked around 1925. Even now, elements of it remain, especially the top tier in country clubs, and the bottom tier in the inner cities of America. The caste system continues to fuel our politics, and it continues to keep different Christian groups divided socially and politically. It would be great to say it’s dead, but it can’t be declared dead until it’s completely vanished from the dating scene. Many young people have met someone they really liked, but felt they couldn’t date, knowing their parents or grandparents wouldn’t approve of the relationship. That’s the American Caste System in action. It’s weaker now, but still with us.


When it’s completely smashed, conservatives will start promoting a mix-race dating and marriage scene. The Left would laugh at the suggestion that conservatives can have a sexual revolution? Just watch, the Second Sexual Revolution is coming. This is what will really swing the pendulum to the Right, because it is clear proof that racism is gone.

Black Americans, especially the older generations, know this American Caste System so well that they think it continues strong and completely unabated to this day. It’s relatively easy to prove exceptions to the average Black person, but “that’s just a good White person”, they’ll say. “The whole country is still racist”, is the firm belief.


Conservatives need to describe what the KKK was about in their heyday, the 1920’s. It wasn’t poor White southerners living in trailer parks and spitting tobacco. The KKK were our quiet, clean-shaven, nicely-dressed grandparents and great grandparents. They lived all over the nation. They regularly attended church, they cherished their families, and they firmly opposed all substance abuse, including alcohol. The KKK were business owners, bankers, builders, law enforcement officers, elected officials, and members of the Masonic Order and various fraternal orders. http://browniesenglish.weebly.com/uploads/2/1/8/2/2182950/kkk_info.pdf 


Here's some 1938 red-lining maps. This is pure caste thinking. https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/?fbclid=IwAR0xhqGsOu1sEY7YsQKtmBotArrvU1xM4ddMXmgsRRBcDZlPgRZm5EuvqBU#loc=12/40.895/-74.128 

And speaking of color patterns, notice how the politically correct define themselves as blue, and all the “deplorable” conservatives are red. We deplorables are on our way to becoming the new untouchables. 


We need to show Black and Latino voters that we conservatives are the ones revolting against it, defining the problem better than it’s ever been defined, and even having a sexual revolution against it. I can write circles around that Howard Zinn.


Until we conservatives firmly and absolutely repudiate racism and the American Caste System, Black Christians and immigrant Christians will continue to say: “nothing has changed, this is still the status quo of how conservatives and White Christians think. We need to keep voting against this.” If Republicans want to win elections, they better read what I’m writing.


INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY VERSUS COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY


Conservatives believe in individual responsibility, meaning that each person is to be personally judged by their own actions and their own values. Therefore, if any particular Black or immigrant is a criminal or living an immoral lifestyle, the conservative considers that problem to be “individual” in nature. It does not reflect negatively upon other Blacks or immigrants. Negative racial stereotypes are out there, but each individual person is still given the chance to prove their status.


The Leftists don’t think this way at all. Leftists believe in collective responsibility, and they reject the concept of individual responsibility. Therefore, if any individual White is a bad or racist person, that reflects negatively on all Whites. I’m considered responsible for anything bad that my ancestors did. Leftists of any race will look at Whites with suspicion until he or she virtue signals, or at least presents themselves as a hipster. This is why a person’s appearance easily predicts political orientation, and why White Leftists are constantly virtue signaling.

Appearance of Leftists  

Appearance of Conservatives

If myself and a White racist both espouse family values, a belief in Jesus, and love of America, the Leftists see us as being exactly the same, and that I must be hiding my racism. I’ve been personally subjected to extreme bias over this on multiple occasions, including at two faith organizations I once attended.


It’s nuts that Leftists, and the Blacks that are brainwashed by them, think that White racists have or may soon gain “power” in America. White racists have no effective lobbying organization, they write no laws, they control no school boards, they run no candidates who espouse White Supremacy, and they enact no policies. All of this sits fine with me, because I don’t support them. When they last called for a national rally in Charlottsville, VA in 2017, they are barely able to assemble a few dozen activists from 20 States. There is no logical reason to believe that White racism will ever increase. 


The entire political strategy of the Leftists is to stoke the fires of collective responsibility against the “Conservative White Christian Male”, and to define them as the enemy of all the oppressed good peoples of America and the world, specifically women, minorities, immigrants, LGBT peoples, and anyone convicted of a substance abuse offense. The focus on collective responsibility is exactly why the leftists think it’s sensible and fair to shorten jail terms and release most prisoners, especially those who are immigrants or minorities. Conservatives are simply aghast at that idea, because we believe each criminal is individually responsible for the crimes they committed. 


Our unity includes the American flag. I don’t care that some people will attack my advocacy of “Christian Nationalism”. Either we are being united by our love of Jesus and pride in our country, or we are being divided by race and social class into hostile camps. I’ll take Christian Nationalism over the latter any time, any day. In the end, our common Christian heritage is what will unify Americans of different races and ethnicities. Let Jesus heal. That’s a real nightmare scenario for the Democratic think tanks. If that happens, they’ll lose 49 States in a fair and honest Presidential election. They’ll win Vermont only. If you google the term “Christian Nationalism”, you’ll find nothing but leftists complaining about it, and nobody actually promoting it. Well, I’m openly promoting it, and I’m proud of it. Long live Christian Nationalism. 

Keeping America divided, and promoting the narrative of racism (instead of race unity) is mission-central to getting out the Democratic vote. It’s literally what the Party stands for, because they have no choice. Their voters are so unmotivated by their economic platform that the narrative of racism is the only way to win elections. They know they can’t get out the vote with an honest platform of peace, love, and unity. Classic liberals secretly hate this situation, shhhhh, but they never admit it publicly. They want to run candidates on an honest platform of their issues, but they can’t do so and win. I used to be a classic liberal. I know exactly how torn they are over this problem.

By default, it has become the focus of all leftist politics to define conservatives as racist. To make this happen, the media, academia, Big Tech, and all of their political allies create various narratives to enhance divisions, and blast them everywhere to stir emotions. The constant blasting of these narratives defines our politics. https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/political-correctness-is-how-the-totalitarian-left-takes-over/


Christian Blacks and Christian immigrants are divided politically from conservative White Christians, and most are now supporting a Far-left political party that doesn’t even like their Christian views.  

The Left, and especially the Masonic Order, wants Christianity weak and divided, and unable to dominate our society the way it once did. The LGBT and artist-based Democratic political strategy is actually quite masterful, but a comprehensive analysis reveals that it is fragile and unsustainable. When Christians of all races and backgrounds develop a common unity supporting God, family, and country, the whole Democratic Coalition comes crashing down. It’s game over.  

Even if only one-third of Christian Blacks and Christian immigrants come over to the conservative side, its game over. The Democratic strategists know it’s game-over, and it’s their greatest fear. My thinking is this --- if that’s their greatest fear, let’s do it. The whole idea of Christian Nationalism is a nightmare scenario that they wish to prevent at all costs. The Leftists are smarter than conservatives on matters of political strategy. They see Christian Nationalism coming, and they want to nip it in the bud by stigmatizing it.


This is why the dominant message of the media, Big Tech, and especially from artists and entertainers, has been to reinforce the central narrative that the White Christian is the racist, nationalist, gun-toting enemy of all the diverse, innocent, and oppressed peoples of America. They have to do this just to make sure that all of the components of the Democratic rainbow alliance remain onboard.

DON’T DEBATE IF THE PARTIES FLIPPED ON RACISM


The typical conservative response to the accusation of “racism” is to downplay past racism, ignore the caste system, and simply say to minority voters: “no, we aren’t that way”. These responses don’t work, it’s a total failure. The only winning response is to fully expose the racism, and firmly repudiate it. There’s been a running battle over whether or not the two Parties flipped on racism. Each side has good points, and the matter is unresolvable. Debating this matter is always a mindless mistake.

Just to have the discussion is to lose the discussion, because the discussion disregards how the corrupt association of Family Values and Christianity with racism has harmed Family Values, and weakened our Faith. Christians are divided.


A basic conservative value set of Christian Nationalism is what’s needed, and Racial Unity must be a core pillar. That’s what makes it real, so let’s do it. I’m a White man married to a Black woman, and we have one mixed race child. So, from my life experience, everything I am explaining is completely natural and real. 

And now we have this U.S. Senator from Georgia, the Rev. Raphael Warnock. Most people don’t understand how a pastor can be Pro-Choice and Pro-LGBT, and affiliate with a political party that openly wants to replace Christianity with a leftist atheist value system. I actually understand him completely. He’s still stuck on the idea that conservatives are some old-school value association God, family, country, and White supremacy. He hates that so much that he’d rather be with the Leftist Democrats. Privately he’s probably Pro-Life and not so keen on the LGBT community. Most of his voters are thinking the same thing. This whole situation is crazy backwards, and unsustainable. 


Everyone, keep your eyes on the big picture. We can definitely smash our way out of the losing political and demographic equation that the Leftists have cornered us into. The Leftists say we’re done when the country is less than 50% White, as if Blacks and immigrants will rarely have conservative positions on God, family, and country. Once the conservative coalition realigns as I’m describing, the decline in White population won’t help the Left. It might even work against them. The White population of this country is trending more Leftist, and the growing immigrant populations are trending more conservative on Faith and family issues. I hope I live to see the day when the majority of these Latino’s illegally crossing the Rio Grande wind up voting Republican.

We win this battle by defining a new values regime of God, Family, Country, and Race Unity. We must build a new conservative alliance that firmly opposes the counterculture, and identifies who is jerking everyone by our chains. And then that becomes what the Republican Party stands for. 


I’m laying out a roadmap, a vision, for a majority of Christian Blacks and Christian Immigrants to come over and adopt the conservative value set of God, Family, and Country. We are welcoming them, hence the term “Welcome Movement”. The definition of “us” has continued to expand as the American Caste System declines. Now it’s time to include everyone as “us”. 

The numbers give us the majority, by a longshot. And we’re not asking immigrants and Blacks to come over as followers, come as leaders and candidates. Our arms are wide open. And don’t let anyone ever tell you: “Your values are wrong”.


The pendulum is going to swing back, and in a gigantic way. It is time for we Americans of all backgrounds to reject the past, and to coalesce as one people under the theme of God, Family, Country, and Race Unity. I see this as the greatest populist movement in our nation’s history. I don’t understand why it hasn’t happened yet. It’s way overdue. 


The change of direction is going to help a lot of people personally and financially. A lot of social problems will be solved, and the associated economic costs will diminish greatly. It’s going to be a shocking paradigm shift.


I know quite a few people who think that all positive change comes from artists and entertainers, and nothing good will ever come from politics or religion. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. These changes are going to manifest, and there will be an abrupt and sudden change in public opinion. All the energy is on the Right. Our nation’s direction is being redefined from a conservative perspective. Churches will be invigorated from coast to coast. 


The leftist’s worst nightmare is for millions upon millions of Blacks and immigrants to get serious about Faith, publicly ridicule the LGBT movement, and then start running as socially conservative Republican candidates for everything from school board to President of the United States. The Welcome Movement is ready. Let’s do it. It’s important that this message gets out there. Please share it widely by email and social media posts. Thank you.


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The ancient Minoans from Crete had massive copper mines in Upper Michigan and Minnesota. The largest mine on Isle Royale in Lake Superior is called “Minong” by the Native Americans, obviously a reference to Minoan, as is the place name of Minnesota. I wonder what Sota means in ancient Minoan? I’ll put my money on cold or snow. The ancient Egyptians were here, and the Carthaginians. Maya or Maya Rata is an ancient region of Sri Lanka as well as the name of a modern province in that country, with architecture identical to that of the Mayan civilization in Mexico, and dating to the same time period. Many words, and some cultural practices and beliefs are the same in both regions, and their calendars are in synch. To this day, South Asian DNA remains a significant component in the Yucatan, Belize, and Guatemala. Here’s one of many sources on this connection https://thegr8wall.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/similarities-between-the-hindu-the-maya-culture/ There are hundreds of Muslim place names in America, from Allamunchy in New Jersey to Tallahassee in Florida. There are Medina’s and Mecca’s in multiple states, and even American towns with exact place names for small towns in Turkey. Almost all of them have the same story, which is “the place name was Native American in origin.” Native Americans in the Eastern United States and the maritime provinces of Canada fear taking ancestry DNA tests, and they bitterly resent the findings showing substantial DNA from the Mediterranean region and the Middle East. They call it the curse of the Middle Eastern DNA. Rather than accept these DNA results at face value, modern geneticists have come up with a twisted theory called The Founder Effect to try and justify the findings. It’s a really bad case of science starting with a conclusion and working backwards to find the evidence to support it. I’d love to see Elizabeth Warren’s full DNA results. No doubt it shows substantial Middle Eastern DNA, and that may be why her test result showed almost no “Native American” DNA, to her great embarrassment. The actual origin of Native Americans, especially the Creek and Cherokee, is a matter of major discussion all over the internet. https://accessgenealogy.com/native/cherokee-dna.htm and https://www.woowoomedia.com/dna-scientists-claim-that-cherokees-are-from-the-middle-east/ Yes, the Muslims were here in America in huge numbers. The famous Piri Reis map was compiled in 1513 by an Ottoman Empire admiral using older source maps that no longer exist. The Piri Reis map shows amazing detail of places not yet reached by European explorers as of 1513. Columbus records in his log encountering a wooden sailing ship on the coast of Jamaica, with occupants in colorful clothing. He could not discern their place of origin, but the Native Americans had no ships. There were Black settlements in Nicaragua and Costa Rica prior to the slave trade, and likely founded by Muslim traders from Senegal and Guinea. They left gold artifacts with an unusual alloy mix identical to gold produced in Guinea, West Africa, and found nowhere else in the world. Various European groups such as the Vikings, the Basque, the Welsh, the Irish, and the Templars were likely in America as well. Their contact may have been more fleeting, but they also left various artifacts. The explorer Giovanni Verrazano was the first modern European to visit what is now Newport, Rhode Island. His log and his map note a stone tower which is still standing and shrouded in controversy. It’s clearly of European architecture, and it has been repaired and repointed so many times that nobody knows for sure who first built it, or when. Carbon dating of mortar can only prove when a repointing occurred, not when the stones were lain. Here’s one of hundreds of theories on the tower. http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/did-giovanni-verrazano-visit-the-newport-tower Doesn’t all of this make the case that Columbus was not so important? Not at all, just read on. What was the result of all those settlements and civilizations from all those great peoples from all of those places? What came of them? What lasting advances were made? How was the world made a better place? The answer is nothing. Nothing at all. The Muslims in particular were all over North America and left so many place names, but the physical and cultural contact was largely lost at least 200 years before Columbus, and the religion was extinct in the West by the time the Europeans colonists arrived. The contact that really mattered was the contact made by Columbus in the name of Kingdom of Spain. And that contact came only months after the last Muslim forces in Spain surrendered, and the Reconquista was complete. The knowledge of Columbus’s voyage swept Europe, and led to the major European powers exploring and settling the America’s. A vast exchange of plants and animals occurred called The Columbian Exchange. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_exchange It is considered an epic event in world history. The connection of the Old and New worlds had a profound impact on all of humanity. Europe accumulated massive wealth and power, and overpopulated from the new calorie-rich food supplies, especially corn and potatoes, that were imported and grown all over Europe. Much of that overpopulation was sent to other parts of the world as conquerors and immigrants. There was nothing like the Columbian Exchange resulting from any of the earlier civilizations that visited America. Cattle, sheep, pigs, and horses didn’t make it to the New World with the Minoans, Mayans, Muslims, or any other Pre-Columbian group. Turkeys, corn, potatoes, tobacco, and tomatoes didn’t arrive in Europe either. There was no massive collapse of the Native American population from disease, and the migrants from the Old World in those past eras eventually mixed with the Natives and lost their cultural identities. The next question is, was the Columbian Exchange a good thing? Would the world have been a better place, or advanced quicker, without this exchange. The answer is probably No. Human civilization had several opportunities for civilization to greatly advance in the past, and become “modern”. Ancient Egypt was very advanced in many regards, and even today with our best modern technology, we could not build the great pyramids. There are depictions in Egyptian art of devices that look like flying machines and even lightbulbs. Another drawing shows a baby mammoth, perhaps from Labrador? Airplanes may have flown the skies of ancient India as well. The Muslim World was very advanced around the year 1000. They also experimented with electricity and had batteries. They made spectacular advances in science and mathematics, and they founded the world’s first true universities. Timbuktu in Mali had a university before any in the Christian world. The ancient Chinese used natural gas for lighting and heating, and possibly manufacturing. They had thousands of miles of natural gas pipelines made out of bamboo. Their naval armada sailed all around the Indian Ocean, and contained huge wooden ships called junks that were far larger than those of any European power. Well, what became of these civilizations and their advances? The answer is about the same as what became of the explorers and settlers that reached America before Columbus. That answer is very little. Those civilizations reached their glory days, and then faded. That’s why they deserve to be little more than historical footnotes. It’s the history of the Christian West that really counted. What succeeded was the work of Columbus, and all the advances in Europe that happened only because the European powers extracted so much wealth from the New World, and benefitted from trade. In the 1700’s something happened in England and the American colonies that never happened any time in the history of the world. We experienced the Industrial Revolution. All of the world has benefitted. The Industrial Revolution happened within the context of Christianity and Christian civilization. It didn’t happen in ancient Egypt, Baghdad, or China. There is something about our Western value system, our views, and our perspective on the world that lends itself to social and economic development, and to democracies replacing monarchies. A key series of events occurred. First, the Renaissance led to the invention of the printing press in Germany by Johannes Guttenberg. Second, the mass printing of The Bible made the Protestant reformation inevitable. Third, the Protestant reformation set the stage for capitalism, the industrial revolution, and the rise of democracy. Thus, all of our great advances are rooted in our Christian value system, and in the rise of modern Christianity. I certainly don’t bash the Catholics, but we’d probably still be sailing in wooden ships with cannons, and living in monarchies, if Martin Luther didn’t post his 95 theses. Other religions and other value systems don’t generate societies as successful as that of the Christian West. Christopher Columbus and his voyages were a key step in the entire development of Western Civilization, and led to the rise of Europe. That’s not only our history, it’s the most relevant history of the world. Ours is the system and the culture that has conquered the world in so many ways, not just militarily. All major aspects of society from religion and democracy to education, medicine, science, engineering, technology, and the arts has largely derived from that of Western Christian civilization. Thank you, Christopher Columbus. You created our world. Yes, you deserve to be celebrated, warts and all. If some great revolution covering all aspects of society had happened in Japan, Nigeria, or Iran instead of in Europe, surely the world’s history, technology, and culture would be focused on their past instead. Our homes and businesses, and our public infrastructure, would be modeled after some other part of the world. But no, that didn’t happen. We don’t have natural gas pipelines made out of bamboo, do we? Modern western cities, even places like Dubai, Seoul, Tokyo, Brazilia, and Nairobi, don’t look like Jericho. The rest of the world is modeled after us. This is the ultimate legacy of Christopher Columbus. This matters way more than him spreading slavery or being responsible for diseases, oppression, and murder that claimed the lives of the Taino natives on Hispaniola. Equal and greater evils had been happening for thousands of years, and WITHOUT any advance of civilization to show for it. Yes, the glass of history is half full, not half empty. The misery wrought by Columbus has born fruit and created the modern world. 
We know there has been oppression associated with Western Civilization. We know there have been wars, and there will be more. We know there are great injustices still unresolved. We know that our history wasn’t perfect, and the motives of whole nations and empires were selfish and insincere. But we also know that progress occurs in phases. For instance, our Founding Fathers simply could not have established a system of democracy covering women and racial minorities. They just weren’t ready. They were the most progressive and advanced people in power anywhere in the world at the time, but the best they could implement was democracy and equality for all White men. They weren’t ready. Society wasn’t ready. Should we mock and blame them for the great steps that they took, and demand that their names be removed from public buildings? No, that’s just plain ignorant. The Founding Fathers took the first steps. Nobody else took them, did they? No other society in the world was on a path towards the full equality of all men in their society, no less to include women and other racial groups. In time, other people took the necessary further steps, and the social structure of our Christian-based society allowed it to happen. That’s how progress unfolds, that’s how history moves forwards. What about good ole’ Chris? Didn’t he bring misery and oppression wherever he visited. Well, he wasn’t ready to establish a just and fair society either. He was only ready to expand the empire of Spain, and the fortunes of businessmen there. The nations of Europe were ready to advance themselves, and to spread Christianity to other lands. That was about it, at that time. Are the indigenous peoples of the America’s, Africa, and Asia better off as Christians, and for adopting Western Civilization? Absolutely. Not a doubt about it. The Christian value system is the best value system, and the best proof of this claim is the development of the modern world. Thank you, Christopher Columbus. The real reason some people hate Columbus and our Founding Fathers is their desire for historical revisionism not just for Columbus, but for all of history. They want to portray the whole world as groups of people in conflict with other groups, and as exploiting and oppressing other groups. This is their message, this is their venom, and this is their politics. They are an unholy alliance of socialist, anarchists, atheists, and artists. They hate religion, especially Christianity. They want no limits on sexual morality or substance abuse. They are advancing a culture war, and they have largely conquered academia, the media, the fashion and entertainment industries, and the tech sector. Their intellectual development is that of a rebellious teenager. Yet collectively, they have more power than our political leaders, and they have the full determination to use it to dominate our society. That’s what Columbus bashing is all about, and it’s time for everyone to choose sides on this issue. It’s not about analyzing history and respecting the progress that humanity has made. Nor is it about building on that progress, and planning the next steps. Nope, Columbus bashing is all about spreading hate and political mischief, and upending our entire society. And the tip of the pitchfork is pointing squarely at the neck of Christopher Columbus. Our best defense is to educate the public on the role of Christopher Columbus in the advancement of Western Civilization. I have no problem with cities and towns having an Indigenous People’s Day. There’s about 350 days not designated as any kind of holiday in this country. Pick one of them. The second Monday in October is already taken. For more information, and to review all of our blog postings, see www.thewelcomemovement.com 

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