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What would you do, how far would you go, how much would you sacrifice to aid your family, to save a loved one? This blog details our journey in how far our family is willing to go to come to the aid of those in need.
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3 comments:
I'm assuming that you are also boycotting the Knights of Columbus, as it was named in honor of Columbus?
No I'm not boycotting the KoC. This is more of a complex issue than One man on a fleet of ships representing a time and culture of a European country. Should Canadians boycott the celebration of the Vikings landing there. Viking were just fun, kind hearted people to those whose lands they .. "settled"
"Following Columbus' discovery, Pope Alexander VI issued a May 4, 1493, papal bull granting official ownership of the New World to Ferdinand and Isabella.
... the Pope's declaration ultimately had dire consequences for native inhabitants of the Americas. Beginning in 1514 Spanish conquerors adopted "the Requirement," an ultimatum in which Indians were forced to accept "the [Catholic] Church as the Ruler and Superior of the whole world" or face persecution. If Indians did not immediately comply, the Requirement warned them:
"We shall take you and your wives and your children, and shall make slaves of them, and as such shall sell and dispose of them as their Highnesses may command; and we shall take away your goods, and shall do all the harm and damage that we can.""
Why are the Knights of Columbus honoring an individual who committed atrocities in order to spread Catholicism? I think a name change should be in order.
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