But by tethering their story to Columbus, early leaders of the United States magically endowed the fledgling nation with a three-hundred-year pedigree, a genesis story whose “in the beginning” implied its birth was the outworking of Providence.

Source: https://religiondispatches.org/columbus-day-is-a-celebration-of-a-christian-doctrine-that-authorized-centuries-of-violence-and-continues-to-threaten-american-democracy/