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Satire for Sanity
For the forum anthropologists;
' On October 12th, 1492, at about 2a.m., Christopher Columbus' expedition from Spain collided with an unknown continent. Juan Rodriguez Bermejo, watching from the mast of the ship Pinta spotted an island in what we now call the Bahamas and shouted ' Land ! Land ! '
Columbus, searching for Japan to the West, believed he had reached a small island off the East Asian coast. He called the people he found there 'Indians ' because he thought he had landed in the Indies- what we now call the East Indies or the Indonesian archipelago . Columbus stuck to this error for the rest of his life . The idea that he had ' discovered ' a completely unknown continent was inconceivable for him and for many of his generation. For thousands of years, not only the greatest thinkers and scholars but also the infallible Scriptures had known only Europe, Africa and Asia. Could they all have been wrong ? Could the bible have missed half the world ?
A great read;
'Sapiens'- A brief history of Humankind '
Yuval Noah Harari.
A million best-seller.
It would also have been inconceivable at that time that the ' Indians ' Columbus had ' discovered ' arrived there from Asia, on foot it's believed, many thousands of years before there were any Scriptures at all.
' On October 12th, 1492, at about 2a.m., Christopher Columbus' expedition from Spain collided with an unknown continent. Juan Rodriguez Bermejo, watching from the mast of the ship Pinta spotted an island in what we now call the Bahamas and shouted ' Land ! Land ! '
Columbus, searching for Japan to the West, believed he had reached a small island off the East Asian coast. He called the people he found there 'Indians ' because he thought he had landed in the Indies- what we now call the East Indies or the Indonesian archipelago . Columbus stuck to this error for the rest of his life . The idea that he had ' discovered ' a completely unknown continent was inconceivable for him and for many of his generation. For thousands of years, not only the greatest thinkers and scholars but also the infallible Scriptures had known only Europe, Africa and Asia. Could they all have been wrong ? Could the bible have missed half the world ?
A great read;
'Sapiens'- A brief history of Humankind '
Yuval Noah Harari.
A million best-seller.
It would also have been inconceivable at that time that the ' Indians ' Columbus had ' discovered ' arrived there from Asia, on foot it's believed, many thousands of years before there were any Scriptures at all.
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