It is a “horribly inaccurate” version of history, according to an “Ana-Baptist”. It is rife with nonsense and historical inaccuracies.
I have a kind of baby theory starting to grow that perhaps TOB theory comes from a mixed-up cultural memory of early Teutonic pre-Christian society. They remember a lost way of life, where families stood alone and religious activity was plain and fairly free-form, where the rules were strict but few and people entered the religious life at about age 10 or 11, with a speech before their rite of passage. I’m making this up. But if the real society that existed in the Germanic parts of Europe just before they became Christianized was at all like that, then the idea that “Baptists were first” would apply to the culture where the Reformationa nd TOB stories were strongest. It would just mean they had it mixed up. If I had no need for work or sleep, I would do a little reading up and see if anything could come of it. Might be a fun project.
If you want to have fun…and learn true history at the same time, do some reading about the periods in question…and use “secular” history books to do it. What you will probably find true is that 99% of the information that they are pandering off as “historically accurate” is “historical nonsense”.
If Columbus was a Jew it would stand to reason that the Jews would be looking for a new home, and this is a possible motive for him to look for a new world.Since Queen Isabella expelled all Jews from her territories in 1492 It is hard to see how Columbus got back to tell her of his findings.
But he was not looking for a new land, only a new route to Asia.
That is what he told the Catholics of Spain, his private motives for the voyage , only god knows
Utter bosh. Everyone knows he was a member of the Priory of Sion.
Oh, good heavens! I always hated the A.C.E. system (though I learned a great deal from their old geometry and art curricula, used without the straightjacket of the system), and here’s more reason to!
Why did the Jesuits have custody of Columbus’s birth certificate in the first place? Anti-Catholic Protestants have this weird habit of ascribing everything to the Jesuits. I remember having to dissuade one conservative Presbyterian from the fixed conviction that the Jesuits ran the Inquisition (in fact the Inquisition was very suspicious of the early Jesuits).
You should take the book with a large dose of salt. Ipecac might be more appropriate though… The Knights Templar were disbanded by Papal Bull in March of 1312. You can read an accurate history of the Knights Templar here: newadvent.org/cathen/14493a.htm
James, while you may think that you are “socially inept”… at this point in your life…DO NOT SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF!! There are far more important things in life than a bunch of “friends”. To my minds eye…a “Friend” is someone who would give their life to protect yours. Anyone else is but a “passing acquaintance”.
In other words: Take care of the truly important things, and don’t sweat the small stuff…C’mon, people!!!
Everybody knows that Christopher Colombus was married to Mary Magdalene.
Whoops, wait a minute. I’m mixing up my fictional novels here.
Just ignore this last post…
Margaret
They didn’t.
Interesting isn’t it? I mean…who else could have possibly been to blame for all the ills of the world…??
Edwin, could it possibly be that they were “ill informed”, and guilty of believing anything that someone else who was ill informed told them or put into print? Is it possible that the Jesuits are a convenient bunch of “boogey-men” to hang everything on? Sure seems that way.
That explains it all!!! The Jesuits swiped his birth certificate because he joined the Franciscans…not them, and that way they messed up his eligibility to play football for the Franciscans!!
Hey, didn’t these Protestants get the memo? OPUS DEI is the new bogeyman. Get with the program, people! (And yes, I’m in Opus Dei, so I’m allowed to make jokes like that.)
No, most people in Europe had no idea he existed, and no one doubted the world is round, and even if they had he didn’t prove it is because he didn’t sail around the world. He sailed about 1/12th of the distance around the world.Well if I remember right, the Jesuits were formed by Saint Ignatius Loyola after the reformation as a counter-reformation to teach the faithful of the Catholic Church about what it teaches. So, many anti-Catholic protestants hate the Jesuits and what they stand for. If I am wrong wrong about anything please feel free to correct me.
The “looney-tunes” are still out there…in the 21st Century: theflatearthsociety.org/On that point I am sure you are correct. If you look closely at the dimensions of the three boats in his fleet…
(Psst…don’t tell her I said that…ok?) I can tell you if we have 5 or 6 guests over…it can get crowded, so having 22 people on a boat this size would drive me over the edge. I can well imagine that the trip would have been slightly “stressful”. Here is some interesting information about the boats and the trip: