Can someone explain to me how an murderous pirate like Columbus

>>1789427
Because it's really Italian American heritage day.

Can you explain to me why a murderous warlord like Muhammad managed to get his own religion

>>1789440
By murdering people

>>1789440
He killed everyone who was against it, Islam is literally forced meme.

Can someone explain to me how St Patrick managed to drive all the snakes out of Ireland, and the fossil record of there ever being snakes in Ireland?

>>1789455
>Can someone explain to me how St Patrick managed to drive all the snakes out of Ireland
You don't start seeing this legend getting widespread until the 1840s, it was originally only mentioned once in an obscure hagiography from the 11th century.

>>1789455
He drove them out before any of them could die and become fossilised

>>1789427
Columbus may have been a murderous pirate, but his discovery of the Americas was an unprecedented good for the people of Europe, so of course people celebrated him.

Tonto pls

File: 800px-Viking_at_MN_Capitol.jpg (221KB, 800x965px) Image search: [Google]

221KB, 800x965px

>>1789427
Why don't we celebrate Leif Erikson Day?

>got to the Americas 500 (five centuries) before Colombo
>did so with a lot in terms of technology and support
>Viking/Nord, not dirty Italian serving Spaniards
>didn't participate in fucking up indigenous societies - just wanted to farm and shiet
>Leif was described as wise, considerate, and strong man of striking appearance.[34]

File: 1475733790073.jpg (736KB, 1044x3514px) Image search: [Google]

736KB, 1044x3514px

>>1790072
A FUCKING LEIF

>>1790072

Short answer? Because Calvin Coolidge didn't have the sway that FDR and the Knights of Columbus did. Wisconsin tried though.

>>1789440
Same reason Christianity isn't called Paulianity despite Paul completely revamping it to his whim.

>>1789440
He made Arabs great
He was a warrior for contemporary social justice (like Jesus) so the common man loved him
He was good at what he did

>>1790107
Removing degeneracy, uniting people to a common cause, and removing anything that would harm a community is A OK on my book

>>1790107
>He was a warrior for contemporary social justice (like Jesus) so the common man loved him


no, he was a warlord who murdered and enslaved everyone into worshipping his version of god.

also by paying them.


Hes nothing like Jesus at all and anyone who compares the two outs themselves a knowing nothing about either religion

>>1790131

Your forgetting the whole "Married a 6 year old at 53" thing.

>>1789427
Columbus didn't jump off the ship frothing at the mouth for heathen blood, the brutality only started after he returned on his 2nd voyage to discover the men he had to leave behind after the Santa María was wrecked had been killed.

>>1790178
Maybe he meant that shipment of Taino (sp?) slaves that nearly died off completely on route that Columbus sent back to King Ferdinand in lieu of gold or spices.

>>1789455

the snakes were so scared they dug up their ancestors

>>1789439
Can someone explain to me a murderous people like the Italians managed to get their own holiday?

>>1789427
>>1790072
Columbus’ voyage kicked off the Age of Discovery and colonization, which is why America is as it is today. No Columbus (or voyageur in lieu of Columbus), no United States.