The Shrine

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Interesting book about Lincoln. People think that the presidents who were assassinated were saints and died with good intentions in their heart, but it's simply not true.</div>

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Oh, I learned that in 11th grade. The EP freed slaves in the seceded states only. It's kind of funny.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>I thought this was common knowledge.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>And what was Columbus attempting to prove to when he was trying to get to "India"?</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>That Catholics were stupid for thinking the world is flat?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Who said the world was flat?</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Yep. By that time, a lot of people knew the world was round. Greek and Roman knowledge had already brought Europe out of the Dark Ages (thanks to the Crusade).</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>That was Columbus's selling point to Queen Isabella actually - to spread Christianity while he went looking for a shorter route to China.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>Of course, now we all know his true intention was simply to kill as a many native americans as he possibly could.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Cortez and that guy who destroyed the Incas, two of the most evil people in history using the name of Christianity to justify the murder of millions</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Columbus thought that the world was a 1/4th of the size than it really so, thinking that India was just around the corner. He was wrong, but history books like to write that version that it was right and a hero, blah blah. He was an idiot from the beginning.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>How the hell was he an idiot? He was a greedy poineer. Not sure if this is true but when he was captured by natives, he told them that if not released, the Sun would disappear. He knew the Solar Eclipse would happen. He was freed. He's no idiot.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Whoops. Lunar Eclipse. And he was not captured. Natives unwilling to supply Columbus with food were fooled into thinking the moon was eaten by Columbus's dragon.</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Judging by the book's description on Amazon, I suspect it's a partisan rant cloaked in not so common knowledge of Lincoln's true character.</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Nah, that came later. :)</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Is it me or does this reply have nothing in common to the parent?</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Columbos had a moon-eating dragon? Cool!</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Bull fucking shit. The aboriginal peoples of the Americas were more attuned to lunar cycles than most Europeans.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Most likely it was all the other way around. The Mayans and Aztecs near the region where Columbus landed knew more about what went on in the skies than any European cultures, and probably most Asian as well.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>In Haiti?????? As far as I know, Aztecs nor Incas had established there.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>He was in the islands, not the mainland of South America.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I know, but likely they had similar knowledge and culture</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>I don't think the natives of Haiti had anything close to what the Incas or Aztecs had. But then again, this story could have just been easily fabricated by Columbus.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>where did you mention Haiti in your previous message</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>I thought you all knew he landed in the islands before he got to South America.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Most people with any sort of knowledge in Columbus's time knew that the world was not flat.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>He actually thought that the world was pear-shaped.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>He's a good story-teller, but still an idiot. Lies, lies, and more damned lies.</div>