American Indians were generally at war with each other.

American Indians were generally at war with each other. Nor was slavery a foreign concept to them. They generally enslaved other tribes when they had the power to do so. [e.g. the Shawnee tribe would roast the captured men alive,  eat them and enslave the rest. The women generally were the commandants that would choose who would live and who would be digested.] So when a certain tribe of  Germanic tribes called Anglo-Saxon came, that was not particularly a new thing. Just more of the same except in one detail.  [See the  Ohio Frontier by Douglas Hurt published in 1996]

In Ohio the first Indians were destroyed by the Iroquois. So the Shawnee and other tribes chased them out until they in turn were chased out.  

the evil inclination of religious people is a "dibuk" i.e a demon

 Rav Nahman said the evil inclination of religious people is a "dibuk" i.e a demon that takes hold of their minds that they can not get freed of even when they want to. You can see this in a lot of religious people. Some sort of insanity takes hold of them that even they must realize to some degree is really lunacy. But that realization does nothing to free them.

there are parasites in the oceans and seas

 It might seem not all the relevant to this blog but I wanted to mention that there are parasites in the oceans and seas. An example is the teredo. Columbus on his 4th voyage to South America discovered a worm that literally ate up his ships.  Not a single ship was sea worthy after being eaten by that worm. So I wanted to mention that sometimes humans can also encounter parasites when they go to the beach. So what I wanted to mention is that these worms do not like to be squished. If one finds under his skin a parasite, I recommend squishing that area. That is much more effective than applying any type of medicine. בחולין מובא סכנתא חמירא מאיסורא In tractate Hulin it is brought the question why a danger to life was brought up in one discussion.. The answer was danger to human life is more be stressed that prohibitions.

Robert E Lee he sent a letter to the Secretary of War of the North objecting and signed "your humble servant."

 One of the greatest heroes of the Civil Was was Robert E Lee.  When he saw Northern soldiers under orders of General Pope [ a Northern general replacing McClellan]  maintain Nazi tactics [to take rob and plunder and much worse] against the populations of the South, he sent a letter to the Secretary of War of the North objecting and signed "your humble servant." When the shoe was on the other foot- when Southern troops were in control of Pennsylvania, their conduct was exemplary under orders or Robert E Lee. They did not touch the property or belongings of anyone under pain of death.[See the actual order signed by Robert E Lee. ] People in Pennsylvania said they would rather quarter 40,000 troops of the South than 1,000 of the North --their own side! [That was a statement of a Pennsylvanian farmer to a northern reporter.]

black masters slave owners.

 Black people are now enslaving white people. Forcing them to work for them for what is called welfare, but is in fact forced labor--forcing people to work without recompense. So the objection to slavery is not sincere. Rather the objection is that blacks want to be the masters. 

[The goal is a exchange of white masters for black masters.]

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 History is I think the main reason for the opposition towards Jesus. Especially the expulsion from Spain is certainly foremost in the minds of most Sephardim. Yet learning the actual history of the bitter struggle to rid Spain of Muslim overlords gave me an idea of why Isabella and Ferdinand thought it would be best not to have  a "fifth column" of people that were either active  in helping the Muslims, or at least were certainly on the Muslim side in terms of ideology --thinking (as they still do) the Muslims were not idolaters as they think Christians are.

 

Columbus received his commission to  just as Isabella and Ferdinand were entering Granada, the last stronghold of Muslim rule in Spain. And that is exactly when the decree was issued. I.e. in simple terms the king and queen were not making any distinctions at that time. All enemies had to go.

And as for the idea of Christians being idolatrous has seemed to me less than accurate after learning some of the  books of Avraham Abulafia [a mystic of the middle ages.] [Only printed recently. Mainly he is brought in the Remak [Rav Moshe of Cordova] and Rav Chaim Vital. I saw his books only in microfilm. Later they were printed.]  

So then why would it not be idolatry? You would have to resort to the idea of souls of Emanation [a frequent concept in the Ari/Rav Isaac Luria]. And Emanation is pure Godliness.