It’s time for the Left’s annual anti-Columbus bash. And once again, we will see the total injustice of leftism, their hatred of Western Civilization, their desire to destroy so they can build their godless “New World.” Columbus actually found a new world, one that we rejoice to live in. I doubt we’ll want the “new world” the Left has in mind.

The problem here with the Left is their fallacious judging — and usually condemning — of everyone who lived “in the past,” especially if that person had anything to do with Christianity or Western Civilization. And it’s pure hypocrisy. I seriously doubt they are going to want people 500 years from now judging them by the standards of that future age — the current Left’s butchering of children, their unscientific transgenderism, their aborting of millions of human beings, women with penises, men getting pregnant, etc. We should be extremely careful about judging previous generations by our standards. But the Left makes an ideology out of it.

There are, indeed, certain timeless, eternal, God-ordained moral truths by which all men, at all times, can and should be evaluated. Murder, theft, rape, adultery, among other things, have generally been considered sins among all cultures in human history (with few, mostly leftist, exceptions). Many beliefs today which the Left judges previous generations (race, slavery, “exploitation”, etc.) were not viewed in the same light by the peoples of their times, people who had not reached our (supposed) level of sophistication and civilization (our “sophisticated civilization” which murders babies and butchers........

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