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===Legacy of Columbus===

===Legacy of Columbus===

Columbus was a devout Christian, according to the teachings of Spanish church at the time.  A fact that is often downplayed and ignored is that he was rumored to never have sworn--something unusual for a sailor at that time. On his ship his shipmates would frequently engage in religious worship. After his death it was thought he should have been named a saint for bringing the Christian faith to half the known world while Spain sent thousands of missionaries to the America's. It is because of Columbus that Latin American has the highest number of professing Christians.<ref>http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/1992/issue35/3502.html</ref>

Columbus was a devout Christian, according to the teachings of Spanish church at the time.  A fact that is often downplayed and ignored is that he was rumored to never have sworn—something unusual for a sailor at that time. On his ship his shipmates would frequently engage in religious worship. After his death it was thought he should have been named a saint for bringing the Christian faith to half the known world while Spain sent thousands of missionaries to the America's. It is because of Columbus that Latin American has the highest number of professing Christians.<ref>http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/1992/issue35/3502.html</ref>

Thanks to the left-wing history book ''A People's History of the United States'' by communist [[Howard Zinn]], however, Columbus had been falsely demonized by anti-American scholars as being a slave-trader, a mass-murderer against Native Americans, and a man who, were he alive in the current age, would have been tried for crimes against humanity.

Thanks to the left-wing history book ''A People's History of the United States'' by communist [[Howard Zinn]], however, Columbus had been falsely demonized by anti-American scholars as being a slave-trader, a mass-murderer against Native Americans, and a man who, were he alive in the current age, would have been tried for crimes against humanity.