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Happy Columbus Day! When Columbus arrived in the new world he faced horrors few could comprehend. Natives of the Carib/Cannib tribe would raid villages and steal women for sex slaves. When the women gave birth the babies were eaten as a delicacy Christianity ended this evil🧵 One of Columbus’ ships ran aground so he left his men on the island in a fort to get supplies. However, upon returning he found that all the men had been eaten or were dead. He then went looking for these cannibals and found 50 huts full of women. The women belonged to other villages that had been raided. Since the Caribs only liked the flesh of men and babies the women were taken back and turned into sex slaves to produce babies for more food. Columbus wrote in his journal that his endeavors were for the Holy service of God and proclamation of the Gospel. "It was the Lord who put into my mind (I could feel His hand upon me) the fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies...The fact that the gospel must still be preached to so many lands in such a short time - this is what convinces me." Putting and end to cannibalism was part of that endeavor. Many didn’t believe Columbus that he really encountered cannibals because they couldn’t believe such horrors still existed. This is because Christianity had already put an end to cannibalism in pagan Europe. As the West abandons it’s Christian foundation it shouldn’t be surprising to see similar horrors and atrocities resurface. This is why if the West is to have a future it must be a Christian one.