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    Or we just need to teach he was banned from Spain upon pain of death for enslaving the natives he converted to Christianity. Within the context of his time he was a bad guy.

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      It won’t happen. Christians will fight endlessly to protect the positive and completely false image of the man.

      It’ll be easier to make a single film which would be put on Christian ban lists which will make it much more widespread and popular than any historical movie.

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        Christians aren’t fighting for this. Remember there are over a billion Christians who don’t care about him at all. It’s really weird that you are making that association.

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          Catholics and the massive amount of weirdos that call correct history lessons “woke” mostly fall under the Christian umbrella. They all defend Columbus Day.