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Watchman on the Wall - The Real Columbus · KNEO Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: And today, Columbus Day, we're going to learn about the real Christopher Columbus from historian Bill Federer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Columbus Day, but how much of what we think we know about Christopher Columbus is actually true?
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  SPEAKER_00: Historian and best-selling author Bill Federer joins us today to separate fact from fiction and uncover the faith, motivations, and remarkable story of the real Christopher Columbus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Larry Sparjamino with Bill Federer.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're going to start the week with an old friend of this ministry, a dynamic speaker who has been a blessing to the church.
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  SPEAKER_03: His name is Bill Federer.
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  SPEAKER_03: I've read a lot of books and I've listened to a lot of speakers, but Bill Federer shines, he really does.
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  SPEAKER_03: He has a fantastic memory.
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  SPEAKER_03: Once he gets started talking about God and country, it's just a never-ending flow of information.
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  SPEAKER_03: I want to share with you how Bill Federer has ministered personally to me.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_03: Many years ago in the 1990s, Southwest Radio Church aired programs with Dr.
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  SPEAKER_03: Noel Hutchins and Bill Federer.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_03: They were talking about Bill Federal's book, Know at that time, America's God and Country Quotations.
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  SPEAKER_03: I was not with Southwest Radio Church at that time, but I was an avid listener to WHTV Radio 91.5 FM in Bristol, Tennessee, the Tri-City area.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, I listened to those programs that Dr.
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  SPEAKER_03: Hutchins did with Bill Federal.
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  SPEAKER_03: What a blessing.
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  SPEAKER_03: That was a time when many were doubting our roots as Americans and the Word of God, and I was amazed from Bill Federal's quotations, from its knowledge of the Word of God, and from his knowledge of the founders of America, its impeccable research, its knowledge of the Bible, and what motivated the founders.
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  SPEAKER_03: It was such a blessing to me.
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  SPEAKER_03: As Americans, we do have Christian roots.
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  SPEAKER_03: Everything that you and I love about America can be traced back to our godly roots and to the Word of God.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_03: I guess we want to get real basic.
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  SPEAKER_03: Who were the pilgrims and what was so treacherous about the 16th century?
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, the pilgrims were separatists from the Church of England, and they lived at a time when the government decided what everybody had to believe.
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  SPEAKER_02: I know it's sort of hard for us to imagine that you would have a government tell you what you can and cannot believe.
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  SPEAKER_02: But uh anyway, uh a little background uh to how they came into being.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh the Muslims had conquered uh Greece, um, they conquered uh North Africa.
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  SPEAKER_02: Matter of fact, when they conquered Egypt, uh they destroyed the oldest library in the world, um there in Cairo.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh they conquered Jerusalem, and then they conquered North Africa, and then they conquered Spain.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_02: Well, as the Muslims were conquering into Greece, the Greek scholars were fleeing west, and they were taking their Greek uh art and architecture, so this flood of Greek stuff into Europe we call the Renaissance.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_02: And then the scholars fled with their Greek New Testaments, and so now for the first time in a thousand years, the Western scholars like Erasmus can translate the Bible not just from Latin but from Greek, and this re-interest in the original Greek language uh lays the foundation for the Reformation.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so uh a little background, um, the Reformation uh is where uh Martin Luther nailed his 95 thesis or debate questions on the door of the Wittenberg Church, and some German princes have been wanting to break away from Rome, and so they said, Okay, Kingdom of mine, you're all now Lutheran, and but it began to be this situation mounting in Europe where um the Holy Roman Empire uh was uh having internal crises, and then the Muslims invade.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so in 1529, a hundred thousand Muslims surround Vienna, Austria, under Suleiman the Magnificent, and uh the Catholic Holy Roman Emperor is Charles V of Spain, he's now faced with a double dilemma.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_02: This Reformation started in 1517 by Martin Luther, and now 1529, 100,000 Muslims surrounding Vienna.
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  SPEAKER_02: He tries for several years to try to stop it, but it gets so serious of an Islamic invasion that he decides to make a deal with the Protestants, uh with the Lutherans, and it's called the Peace of Augsburg of 1555.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's the first treaty ever to recognize Protestants, and in this treaty is a little Latin phrase that had enormous repercussions.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh the phrase was cuios regious religious, which means whose is the reign, his is the religion.
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  SPEAKER_02: In other words, look, Protestant king kings, believe whatever you want in your kingdoms.
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  SPEAKER_02: Let's just work together against these Muslims who are invading Europe because they want to kill us all.
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  SPEAKER_02: Anyway, uh it worked, it stopped the Islamic invasion, but in the next century, different kings believed different things, and um uh each country had its own denomination, uh, you know, where you had um the Scotland was Presbyterian, Holland was Dutch Reformed, Northern Germany and Sweden were Lutheran, Switzerland was Calvinist, and Italy, Spain, France, Austria, Poland, Ireland remained Catholic, and England became Anglican.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so the pilgrims were a branch off of the Anglican church.
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  SPEAKER_02: So that's a long answer to a short question, but it at least gives a little bit of a setting to where these pilgrims were, the situation that was building up of the Islamic threat on one side, but then these kings wanting you to believe the way they wanted on the other side.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, how did the kings, for example, of Spain, France, and England, and the Turkish sultans dominate people's lives?
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  SPEAKER_03: What are what do they do?
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  SPEAKER_03: How do they work that out?
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_02: Well, this was pretty interesting.
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  SPEAKER_02: So the king of Spain, Charles V, was the Holy Roman Emperor, and he's the most powerful guy in the world, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: So the King Ferdinand and then Queen Isabella sent Columbus to America.
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  SPEAKER_02: They have a daughter that is Joanna, and she marries the you know, the Prince of Austria, Philip, uh anyway, but uh she's considered Joe Joanna the Mad.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's what they named her.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so she sort of deposed, well, their son is Charles V.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so Charles V of Spain sort of unites the Austrian Empire and the Spanish Empire, and then he has all the new world.
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  SPEAKER_02: He's really, really powerful.
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  SPEAKER_02: He's fighting France and actually captures the king of France, Francis I.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so Francis Vir writes to his mother, I've lost all save honor.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so after keeping him in prison for a while, uh the king of Spain says, Look, uh, if you surrender some of these territories that we've been disputing over and give up some lands here and there, I'll let you go.
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  SPEAKER_02: So Francis I agrees, he gets let go, and what does he do?
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  SPEAKER_02: Now that he's free, he makes a treaty with Spain's biggest enemy, the Ottoman Empire.
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  SPEAKER_02: So now you have France becoming friends with the Ottoman Turks and helping to upgrade their military and so forth.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so this causes Charles V uh to have to split his resources.
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  SPEAKER_02: You know, now he's got you know more enemies, and so this allows the Muslim Sultan to capture all of Hungary and kill the king of Hungary, Louis, King Louis of Hungary.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so you begin to see this dissension.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's sort of political, you know.
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  SPEAKER_02: You have um maybe Democrats and Republicans, and one party thinks, hey, if I side with the Muslims, it'll help me to have an advantage against this other party, not realizing that Islam has its own agenda and they'll use you as much as they think they can use you.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, so this is the setting.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh, but kings and sultans decided what was going to be believed in their kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh they call it the divine right of kings, where the creator gives the power to the king and he dispenses it to these underlings called subjects.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh same thing in the Ottoman Empire, the Sultan claimed to be a successor of the Messenger of Allah.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so his will was the law, and if you buck him, you're bucking Allah, and you get killed.
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  SPEAKER_02: So the kings determined what was going to be believed in their kingdoms.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_02: And um now uh a little bit of uh background is necessary.
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  SPEAKER_02: When the Muslims were invading Greece and destroying their libraries and artworks, and all the Greek scholars were fleeing west, and this started the Renaissance.
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  SPEAKER_02: But in 1453, the Muslims conquered Constantinople, and this ends the land trade routes to get from Europe to India and China.
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  SPEAKER_02: People forget that uh Marco Polo, two centuries earlier, you know, the game the kids play around the pool, Marco Polo, he went from Venice, Italy to China in 1271.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_02: He brings back to Europe stories of gunpowder, thread from worms, silkworms, China plates.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_02: The Chinese invented the process that made the porcelain plates and had a monopoly on the process for two centuries.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_02: China invented the wheelbarrow, the compass, the Pony Express, the pinata, and the Chinese invented paper from tree pulp.
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  SPEAKER_02: And uh what did they print with paper currency?
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  SPEAKER_02: So instead of using papyrus read from the Nile, or where we actually get the word paper comes from papyrus, instead of that for the source of paper, it was this tree pulp, and it came from China, and China printed currency.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um and so if you have currency in your wallet, the first paper currency in the world was China.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um unfortunately they printed too much of it, and that helped them the Wan dynasty to collapse.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh that's why they called their currency the Wan, because it came from the Wan dynasty.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um but so the Europeans wanted to trade with India and China because it was technologically superior.
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  SPEAKER_02: And India had teased, dyes, and spices.
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  SPEAKER_02: But when the Muslims conquered Central Asia and sacked Constantinople in 1453, it ends the land trade routes, and that's when Columbus set sail looking for a sea route.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so uh so it's important to understand.
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  SPEAKER_02: So Spain is the one who sent Columbus to America, and so Spain has a monopoly on the New World for a century, and it's all theirs.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, like for 1565, some French Protestants wanted to settle in uh Florida near Jacksonville, and the Spanish basically butcher them.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so um, so no other countries of Europe wanted to set foot on the new world, so they had their monopoly.
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  SPEAKER_02: And um and and so it's interesting in my book, I bring out all these attempts of Spain to settle uh North America.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now, they uh settled Central and South America primarily because there was gold and silver.
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  SPEAKER_02: The uh mountain in uh Peru called the Potosi, um, and that's where they got silver from.
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  SPEAKER_02: But they looked around North America and they really didn't find any gold or silver.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_02: Uh but they did have major settlements that failed.
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  SPEAKER_02: So one was around Paris Island, South Carolina.
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  SPEAKER_02: Six hundred Spaniards come over.
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  SPEAKER_02: I mean, there was only 102 pilgrims.
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  SPEAKER_02: I mean, this is a major attempt, and they have uh Indian attacks and malaria and you know, real cold winters, and the captain of the uh expedition dies.
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  SPEAKER_02: A hundred of the African slaves they brought over run off and live with the natives.
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  SPEAKER_02: They consider those the first non-American uh people to assimilate were these 100 Africans that came over.
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  SPEAKER_02: And one story that uh I just have to throw in here is um when uh there was a Spanish guy named Narveez, and he was gonna settle uh around Tampa, Florida.
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  SPEAKER_02: And he has, among others on his ship, a guy named Cabeza de Baca.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_02: Well, there's hurricanes, their ships uh are smashed and land on the coast.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so they end up uh wandering around.
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  SPEAKER_02: There's 400 of them.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_02: They wander around on wild goose chases, and the Indians ambush them and kill a bunch.
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  SPEAKER_02: So now there's 80 of them.
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  SPEAKER_02: And they're back where their ships were, uh the wrecks, and they um try to rebuild rafts out of the wreckage.
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  SPEAKER_02: They even take uh deer skins and pieces of wood, and they make bellows where you can blow the air through, and so they blow the fire to make it really hot, and they can melt the iron and fashion it into nails, and then they nailed their uh little rafts together, and there's like a half dozen rafts, and they float along the coast of you know, the Gulf of Mexico, trying to get back to uh Mexico and eventually Mexico City, uh, and they reach the mouth of the Mississippi River, and they're suddenly swept hundreds of miles out, and none of them are seen again except one.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_02: One shipwrecks near what is present-day Galveston, and they're arrested and uh enslaved by the Indians, and four of them escape, and one of them is Cabeza de Baca.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_02: And guess what?
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_02: He travels for the next eight years through Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and so forth, and he prays for the Indians, and he preaches the gospel, and he not only prays for the Indians, but the reports are that a lot of them got healed, and so he got the reputation as a faith healer, sort of a holy man, and none of the Indians would touch him, and they gave him red carp carpet treatment.
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  SPEAKER_02: So here he is traveling all around, you know.
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  SPEAKER_02: He finally makes it back to Mexico City in 1536, and later, around 1540, he's sent to settle Buenos Aires, Argentina, uh Cabeza de Vaca.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_02: So a fascinating story.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_02: I just uh had to throw that one in.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_02: But the Spaniards tried to settle America.
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  SPEAKER_02: They had Hernando uh de Soto wandering around.
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  SPEAKER_02: He ends up uh dying and they bury his body body in the Mississippi River.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_02: Uh there's Coronado out west.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_02: There is um Ponce de Leon uh going around Florida looking for the fountain of youth.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_02: Um, none of these uh can actually settle North America.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so there is a story that um I I throw in.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh the Spaniards, uh Columbus was a Genoa, he was not Spanish.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so immediately after he comes back after the first voyage with all the reports of the New World and the gold and the Indians uh being peaceful, uh the Spaniards get jealous of Columbus.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so he wanted to do another he he thought he was this close to China and India.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_02: He's wandering around Cuba with a letter from the King of Spain to the Grand Khan of China.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, he thinks he's this close, but instead of exploring uh the second voyage, he saddled with 17 ships, 2,000 get-rich quick Spaniards, and his hands are tied.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_02: He's like, I want to get out there and explore, and now I now they s they settle.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_02: He's not really good at being an administrator.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_02: And with uh hurricanes and Indian attacks and malaria, these Spaniards get upset at Columbus.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_02: Um, he basically caves and lets them set up the feudal system.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_02: So in Europe, you had the system where you had a feudal lord, you had a big plot of land, whatever peasants were on there, they were tied to the land, and they sort of worked as servants for the feudal lord.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_02: And so Columbus lets them set this up in America, where these Spanish, you know, settlers uh they get their plot of land, whatever Indians are on it they claim are theirs, and they put them to work, unfortunately, digging for gold.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_02: Uh what happens is uh for about 50 years, the natives are enslaved, treated really bad, but then there's a guy named Bartolome de las Casas.
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  SPEAKER_02: He lives at the same time that Martin Luther lives.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_02: Martin Luther originally was a Catholic priest, and Bartolome de los Casas is a Catholic priest.
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  SPEAKER_02: Anyway, Bartolome de la Casas spends his whole life trying to get the King of Spain to outlaw the enslavement of Native Americans.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_02: And when he's finally successful, that's when the greedy guys say, well, gee, if we can't enslave Native Americans, where can we get slaves?
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_02: And someone said Africa.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_02: And so that began the African slave trade, where the Spaniards and later Portuguese would go to the Muslim slave markets and they would buy Africans from the Muslims.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_02: You know, there was uh big uh Timbuktu was a big slave trading city where the Niger River, the river meets the caravan, and and then you know, all across Africa.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_02: There was Khartoum was a big Muslim slave trading city, and the Zanzibar coast, Anthony, and there were dozens of these and so the Europeans uh bought the Africans from the Muslims.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_02: And so that's sort of a chapter that's left often left out.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_02: Well, these terrible Europeans in the slave trade.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_02: Well, they they were bought from Muslims who because Mohammed was a white Arab and he owned Africans.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_02: Anyway, so so the same time that Bartolome de las Casas is working to free the slaves of that who are Native Americans, you have Martin Luther over in Europe uh beginning the Reformation.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_02: So um uh it's sort of interesting.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_02: Bartolome de las Casas um was uh upset at the mass conversions.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_02: He says you're you know, we're converting them so much, you know, from the Virgin of Guadalupe picture and so forth, and that you're not adequately explaining the faith to them.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_02: And so he actually had debates with other you know friars saying, you know, you need to explain the gospel before you baptize them.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_02: Uh another uh was Seppel Vide, and he was arguing that the Native Americans were inferior humans, so it was okay to enslave them.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_02: And so they had these big debates where um Martilo Medellis Casa says, no, they're human beings.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_02: And if you read the debates, they're exactly like the pro-life debates today.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_02: Well, the babies are not fully human, therefore you can kill them, you know, and and so um anyway, uh, but the reformation takes place in Europe, and then you have John Wycliffe, who wants to translate the Bible into English, but uh he was before the printing press.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_02: John Huss does the same thing in the Czech Republic, but the printing press comes along, and this allows Martin Luther's uh Reformation to spread.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_02: And so I'll I'll pause here, but there's a bunch of stuff in my book on the invention of the printing press.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_00: We all know the story of the pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_00: Or do we?
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  SPEAKER_00: Before Plymouth Rock, there was a dangerous world of powerful kings, religious persecution, global empires, war, and tyranny.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_00: A world where simply practicing your faith could cost you your freedom or your life.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_00: In the treacherous world of the 16th century and how the pilgrims escaped it, historian Bill Federer takes you back to the incredible events that set the stage for the pilgrim's journey to America.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_00: Discover the reformation of the Spanish Armada, the Ottoman Empire, the rise of the English Bible, the pilgrim's struggle for religious freedom, and the remarkable story of Squanto.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_00: You'll discover that the freedoms we take for granted, speaking freely, participating in government, and worshiping God without fear of persecution, came at an extraordinary price.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_00: This isn't just the story of Thanksgiving, it's the prequel to America's Freedom.
• 20:54
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• 21:00
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• 21:21
  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot happening in our world right now, and plenty we need to talk about.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_00: Pastor Larry is back with Marvin McElvany to break down some of the most important news and bring biblical insight and perspective to the events unfolding around us.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_03: Do you think that an atheist might endorse Christianity?
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  SPEAKER_03: That's that's amazing.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_03: I think, you know, okay, I'm a Christian, I'm a friend of Christianity, I say good things about it.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_03: But how about an atheist who doesn't believe in the existence of God?
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_03: Well, probably an atheist Richard Dawkins gave a wonderful testimony to Christianity.
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  SPEAKER_03: Dawkins is the guy who wrote the God illusion.
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  SPEAKER_03: He admitted That, quote, there are no Christians, as far as I know, blowing up buildings.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not aware of any Christian suicide bombers.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm not aware of any major Christian denomination that believes the penalty for apostasy is death.
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  SPEAKER_03: In an interview with the Times of London, Dawkins even went on to admit he says, quote, I have mixed feelings about the decline of Christianity insofar as Christianity might be a bulwark against something worse.
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  SPEAKER_01: Friedrich Nietzsche is a good example of what happens when the bulwark is torn down.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nietzsche saw Christianity as a moral weakness which leads people to believe in equality.
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  SPEAKER_01: He had no place in his thinking for the foolish idea that men and women should be regarded as equals.
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  SPEAKER_01: He was quite insistent that the first step in the advancement of society is the destruction of the physically and mentally handicapped.
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  SPEAKER_01: His writings are replete with the death of God, the importance of moral relativism, Aryan racism, and the coming Ubermans, Hitler's Superman, who regarded Jews as vermin.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well yeah, Marvin, Nietzsche was a wild man.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_03: You know, he actually um went insane at the end of his life.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_03: He went crazy.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_03: And I think Nietzsche is a good example of what's happening to our society.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, if we start thinking in a corporate sense like Nietzsche, we'll all go mad.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, maybe that's why there are so many killings.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_03: You ever think of that?
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_03: But anyhow, that's another story.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_03: But uh Nietzsche is a good lesson uh for all of us.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_03: And take uh Yuri Gagarin, he lived from 1934 to 1968.
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  SPEAKER_03: He was the first human to journey into outer space.
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  SPEAKER_03: He was quoted by Nikita Khrushchev, who was making an anti-God speech.
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  SPEAKER_03: Quote, Gagarin flew into space, but he didn't see any God there, Khrushchev approvingly said.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now, whether or not Gagarin had actually made that statement has been questioned, but the statement illustrates the impossibility of disproving the existence of God.
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  SPEAKER_03: No human being can prove a universal negative.
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  SPEAKER_03: The watheists claim to be scientifically oriented and claim that empirical evidence is on their side.
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  SPEAKER_03: Atheism is an act of human arrogance, making an insane leap of faith into a dark void.
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, how can any human being say there's no God anywhere because I've been in every part, in every realm, in every cell?
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, you know, maybe the atheist needs a new pair of glasses.
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  SPEAKER_03: If you put the glasses on, he might see God.
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  SPEAKER_03: Friends, you know, there are so many Christians today who are really worried about the atheists.
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  SPEAKER_03: Don't be worried about them.
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  SPEAKER_03: They don't have a leg to stand on.
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  SPEAKER_03: The reason why they are atheists is because they're in a war against God.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's no empirical proof.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's no evidence that God does not exist.
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  SPEAKER_03: In fact, all the evidence is on the side that God does exist.
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  SPEAKER_03: Furthermore, that he sends his only begotten son, who's a lover of the entire world, whatever your color, he loves people.
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  SPEAKER_03: We have proof.
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  SPEAKER_03: Americans choose the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific as a testing ground for 67 nuclear detonations from 1946 to 1958, causing human and environmental catastrophes that persist to this day.
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  SPEAKER_03: The Marshall Islands are situated between Hawaii and Australia.
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  SPEAKER_03: Many of them are still uninhabitable at the present time.
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  SPEAKER_03: The largest detonation was Castle Bravo and was more than 1,000 times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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  SPEAKER_03: When the Castle Bravo device was detonated, it left a crater 0.9 miles wide and 246 feet deep.
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  SPEAKER_03: Benjamin Franklin, in his 1787 address to the Constitutional Convention, warned, quote, there is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharaoh.
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  SPEAKER_03: Get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever.
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  SPEAKER_03: I am apprehensive that the government of the states may in future times end in monarchy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hebrews 6 10 says, For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love.
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  SPEAKER_01: That means God remembers the good things we do.
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  SPEAKER_01: We can provide hope and joy to someone.
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  SPEAKER_03: God remembers every time we have witnessed to someone, every time we reach out and bless someone.
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  SPEAKER_03: He remembers every prayer we've prayed for someone, every word of encouragement that we have spoken, every dollar we have sowed into the work of the kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yes, I want our listeners to remember for God is not unrighteous to forget your work.
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