Columbus And “The Right Of Conquest”
Groups of Three: Jesus Christ, Columbus, and the US Constitution & How It Effects Us Today
Officially celebrated in the US on the second Monday of October, Columbus first made landfall in the Americas, in what is now the Bahamas, on October 12, 1492. And though, in his eyes, he did stumble onto the shores of a new world, what is more important for the present inquiry is the fact that Columbus immediately imposed the Order of the old world upon the one he invaded. The law of force (articulated in the European legal tradition’s Doctrine of Conquest, which grants invaders legal title to the lands they conquer) was subsequently imposed throughout the Americas and beyond. Though this doctrine was formally abolished by the UN in 1974, insofar as it continues to determine the distribution of the planet’s resources, the right of conquest in many respects continues to determine the course of our lives. And while it is crucial to remember the atrocities that Columbus and his successors committed throughout the world during the so-called Age of Discovery, it is equally important to recognize the fact that, though its forms may have changed, the underlying Order that Columbus initiated (with all of its violent implications) continues to operate in politics, economics, and law – that is, systemically – throughout the world today.https://popularresistance.org/columbus-and-the-right-of-conquest/
Thank God for Columbus
Even when we had mischievous gods, we were better than the Mexica, the most dominant tribe of the Aztecs. Going all the way back to the Romans,
God might throw an army under the bus because a general broke his word,
and the Jews, the Muslims, and the Christians all believed that God is
better than us — which is why He warred with us constantly. Huitzilopochtli,
the main god of the Mexica, had no such benevolence to fall back
upon. You fed him, or he would wipe you out. And the way that you fed
him (and other lesser deities) was by flaying people, or burning them
alive, or cutting out their hearts. Sometimes two of the three. I'm
told that some priests even took the human skin and wore it, like
Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
