Zach Drew Exposes Marxist Revisionism and the True Faith of Christopher Columbus
About this episode
Zach Drew, host of The Zach Drew Show and a leading voice in Christian historical truth-telling, joins Philip Cameron for a compelling conversation on how Marxist revisionism is systematically rewriting American history — and what Christians must do to reclaim the narrative. Zach explains that the very word "revisionist" is rooted in Marxism: Merriam-Webster's primary definition reads, "a movement in Revolutionary Marxism socialism favoring an evolutionary rather than a revolutionary spirit." That foundation, he argues, drives today's academic campaigns — from Critical Race Theory to the 1619 Project — all designed to paint America as an oppressor nation and dismantle capitalism on the path to a post-Christian society. The episode zeroes in on Christopher Columbus, dismantling three modern myths. Drawing from Columbus's own 1502 Book of Prophecies and letters to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, Zach reveals that Columbus wrote, "I attest that he the Spirit with marvelous rays of light counseled me through the holy and Sacred Scriptures." Far from a gold-hungry villain, Columbus sought wealth specifically to finance a mission to reclaim Jerusalem. And rather than slaughtering indigenous people, Columbus championed the Taino people — even advocating for their civil rights — while defending them against the cannibalistic Carib tribe. Discover more of Zach's ministry and support his work at www.zachdrewshow.com.
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What's Discussed
Zach Drew, host of The Zach Drew Show, delivers a historically grounded challenge to the revisionist rewriting of American history. He traces the word 'revisionist' to its Merriam-Webster root in Revolutionary Marxism and connects modern academic movements — Critical Race Theory, the 1619 Project — to a deliberate goal of destroying capitalism and establishing a post-Christian society. The episode's centerpiece is a three-part defense of Christopher Columbus, drawing from Columbus's own 1502 Book of Prophecies and letters to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. Zach demonstrates that Columbus was a Spirit-led Christian, that his pursuit of gold was tied to financing a Jerusalem reclamation mission, and that his military actions targeted the cannibalistic Carib tribe — not the Taino people he loved and publicly championed.
- Defining Revisionism and Its Marxist Roots
- Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project
- Columbus's 1502 Book of Prophecies
- Columbus's Gold and the Jerusalem Mission
- Columbus and the Taino People
- The Carib Tribe and the Cannibal Narrative
- Primary Source Evidence vs. Academic Opinion Pieces
Episode Transcript
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Intro
Philip:Hello, my friend. Welcome to Daily Faith. My name is Philip Cameron, and this program is here to be a partner with you in your faith. We want to affirm in your spirit that God is on your side, and if God be for you, who can be against you.
Philip:We have got a powerful program today. You are going to learn stuff — I promise you — about the finding and the founding of this country that you haven't known before. We are living in a revisionist age when everything that is of substance is being changed and tinkered with. They're tearing down statues, renaming schools, because their version of history is now becoming dominant, and we need the church to stand up and say, whoa, just a minute, that's not the truth.
Philip:Because if the church doesn't have a voice in this whole thing, there's no voice left. I tell you now, the church is the last bastion of freedom left in this country, and unless we stand up for Christ and what we believe and speak about it, we are in desperate trouble. So Zach Drew is my guest today. I said, there's my friend. He is my friend and he's on the program. This guy is amazing. If you've never heard of him, you need to find his show — I'll be telling you how to do that — and we need you to stand behind this young man's ministry because he is a watchman on the wall.
Philip:As I said in the pre-show before we actually start this program, your TV screen is made up of hundreds of thousands of tiny little dots. They change color, and what it does — if you step back — you have a full picture. Most of the church are caught up in dots, focused close up, and we can't see the forest for the trees. Zach's ministry is to take a long view and let you see the whole picture, and this guy will bless you.
Philip:If you love your pastor, call them right now. He's going to learn stuff today that will help him and strengthen him as he proclaims the gospel and proclaims the truth of where this nation came from. It's important. Before we get to that, I want to give you an update from our ministry in Ukraine and Moldova. As you know, we have a village of homes that we've had for 30-odd years in the country of Romania, Moldova, and most recently Ukraine.
Philip:In that country, when a boy turns 16, they put him on the street. Traffickers get them. Every girl you will see in these videos — if a trafficker gets her, she's worth $300,000 a year for the trafficker. Every girl you see in the video I'm about to show you, caught by a trafficker, is worth $300,000 a year. We have a village of homes called Vatra Village where they come to us instead of being put on the street.
Philip:They come to us — that gorgeous place that's beside the largest lake in all of Moldova. It was built for rich people. They poisoned the lake, they tried to clear the algae, and the houses — no one wanted to buy the houses because they killed the lake. And we've bought these houses and have worked on them and they are stunning. They were built for rich people and orphans now live in them. We furnish them here from America, ship all the stuff over in containers, and we've put these kids in school and tell them, if you are born, God has a plan for your life.
Philip:And these kids — part of the DNA is to go and help poor people. They feed widows, they feed poor families, they bring furniture and clothes and blankets and school supplies and toys and shoes — non-stop giving away — because that's how you help an orphan get over their own background, is by making them givers.
Philip:When Ukraine was invaded by Russia, our kids that day were up at the border ministering and caring for the refugees that were coming. 490,000 came to Moldova. We had a home in Odessa in Ukraine that we had to evacuate and take the girls to Chisinau, to that village you just saw, and they've been there since. However, there is the call — it's time for them to go back, because this war is at a standstill and Moldova can't afford to keep hundreds of thousands of refugees.
Philip:The gentleman who owns the house that we have been leasing — the lease is up and he wants to sell the house. So I'm in a situation where I've got these girls, a household of 24 kids, and the problem I'm facing is that if he sells the house and it goes elsewhere, I've got nowhere to put these kids. And I just can't bear the thought of it. So we are trying to raise the funds to buy the house.
Philip:The house itself is $150,000. We're going to put furniture in it and we're also going to buy a van, so that if the Russians come close to Odessa we can get our kids in the van and ship them back to Moldova to safety. But they want to go home. They don't speak the language in Romania there. They've left what little world they know of. So we are believing God for folk to help us buy this house, and I'm going to watch this video — let you see what we're doing right now — for God to allow us to perform this miracle. Watch.
God challenged us to open a home in Odessa years ago. We looked for many months to find a place big enough to make a difference in young girls' lives. We finally found the perfect place that can house 24 girls. We signed a long-term lease with the owner and it has just ended. At the moment we are able to house the Ukrainian girls in Moldova, but as the war drags on there is pressure to have those who escaped the Russian invasion return to Ukraine. Moldova simply cannot afford the cost of maintaining so many refugees.
And they have returned to Ukraine. Many have left for Europe and the USA and will never return. Our girls wait every day to return to their homeland. If their home is sold, there will be nowhere for them to go.
In the natural it seems impossible. We have already strained every sinew in our ministry this year to care for thousands of destitute lives. We are about to send at least two containers packed with warm clothes to help these lost souls survive the brutal winter. But what about the young lives we are already committed to protecting? Where would they go?
Can you imagine handing them a bus ticket to death and telling them, you are on your own, we have nowhere for you to go, your home has been sold? How would they survive in a country stuck in the no man's land of war?
We are going to believe God to buy this special place. We will continue our work in Ukraine and trust him for protection as the days ahead unfold. We will be right there in the middle of tragic events, with a place of refuge for young girls to find rest in a home provided by loving hearts.
If God moves, the home we need is already waiting. We just need you. Will you pray? Will you give? I'm certain everyone who could wouldn't even hesitate to help this miracle take place. That is how this huge door of opportunity could open.
We can minister to these dear souls for years to come and be a beacon of hope in a bleak battlefield of despair.
Philip:When the Lord challenged me to do this, I thought, how can I ask folk to help me buy a home in a war zone, in a country that's been invaded by Russia? And he said, would you risk $2,000 of your money to save 24 girls? And I said, I would. I would give $2,000 for the opportunity to save 24 girls from being trafficked. All those girls you saw in that video just now — $300,000 a year to the trafficker. And if they're worth that to a trafficker, surely I can sacrifice.
Philip:And I gave $2,000 to help buy this home. And my pastor, when I shared with him, he gave, and several other pastors have said, man, we are in. We're halfway there right now as I speak. I'm asking people, if you could, to pray about helping me buy this home. Whatever gift you can give will help me. Just make sure when you contact us, just write 'home in Ukraine' or 'Odessa' or 'new home' — however you earmark it, this money is going untouched into an account to buy this house.
Philip:If a hundred people believe God with us for $2,000, we can buy this home and have a place for these kids to go back to. If Ukraine wins and Russia goes back to Russia, then the need will be desperate. If Russia wins, the need will be more desperate. We're not leaving. We're going to stay there. Whatever the circumstance, we will preach the gospel to these people.
Philip:Please pray right now. You can contact me if you wish — just The Orphan's Hands, PO Box 25, Clinton, Tennessee 37716. The Orphan's Hands, PO Box 25, Clinton, Tennessee 37716. The quickest way is to go to dailyfaith.tv. You can give right now by a charge card or bank card, and that's like wiring the money to us. Or you can go to 833-Daily-Faith — 833, dial Daily Faith into your keypad on your phone, and a real live person will pick up. Please help me make this miracle happen. We are believing God to have it done by this month and we're just praying that God will speak to your heart.
Philip:Some of you, I believe God for a miracle for your family. I believe this — you can plant into someone that has no one. That little boy in the picture you saw with the teddy bear — his sister was one of the girls in our home in Ukraine, and when she heard that we were taking them from Ukraine to Moldova for safety, she disappeared and we thought she'd run away. And she came back with that little boy, her brother, and she said, if you can, can you save him too? And he has been with us in Vatra Village ever since. Please allow God to speak to your heart. The address will be on the screen. Let God speak to your heart and make this miracle happen.
Philip:I'm delighted to have with me Zach Drew — a great friend, a great man of God with a great purpose in life, and that is to let you see and let you understand things in context. The long view of history affects the reality that we live in today. Zach, I'm delighted to have you with us, and I just so admire your ministry. I understand right now you're going through a fundraising season and I want to get behind you. I am with you. And the quickest way to get to you is just the Zach Drew Show — www.zachdrewshow.com. And that's right — you've heard what this wonderful man has to say, and the things he's going to teach us — you want to give a gift to help him make his budget so he can stay on television across this country.
Defining Revisionism and Its Marxist Roots
Philip:Zach, revisionism — tell us what revisionism is and how it's affecting what we do today.
Zach Drew:Yes, so revisionism and the revisionists — they are scattered throughout America right now. They are littered within the academic world. They rewrite our history books. They implement new teachings like critical race theory, like the 1619 Project, and so many others. But there's a goal in mind with these movements, and it's to taint our view of this great country. That is what it is. We must become lesser because we, as America, are classified as the oppressors — not only of our own people but of the world — so we must become lesser so that everyone else can become greater.
Zach Drew:It's always a socialist plan. But they make conscious, intentional misstatements about things in the past, whether distant or recent. They also reject traditionally held beliefs that culture holds to. But their ultimate goal as revisionists is to destroy capitalism and get us to a post-Christian society.
Philip:So basically, for someone that understands terms, you would say, Zach, you literally just described a Marxist, because the Marxist goal is to destroy capitalism and a post-Christian society. Are you saying that all revisionists are Marxists?
Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project
Zach Drew:Here is an interesting fact. If I would just walk up to you and say, Philip, what is the definition — without looking it up in the dictionary — what's the definition of a revisionist? You would say, well, someone that revises, maybe on a bias with historical analysis, or this and that. The number one definition listed in Merriam-Webster's dictionary, which is America's most trusted dictionary — the number one definition of a revisionist — it says this: revisionism, a movement in revolutionary Marxist socialism favoring an evolutionary rather than a revolutionary spirit. The very core of the word revisionist is rooted in Marxism.
Zach Drew:So they revise and rewrite history, and it's written in such a way to condemn any Christian aspects of our founding. So that's why we hear things like Christopher Columbus was a genocidal villain. That's why we hear things like the founders were evil, slave-owning barbarians who created an economic system of oppression. Now, I want to say this — on both sides of any conflict there are always human beings, which means there are always errors on both sides. But what the revisionists have done is they've covered up the glory of America.
Zach Drew:You hear things like the pilgrims shouldn't be revered. In fact, Thanksgiving should be replaced with a day of sorrow. All of these are deliberate, carefully crafted narratives that they put into our children's American history books. And they filter everything through one singular view, and that one singular lens is to paint our great country through the lens of oppression — that we are oppressors.
Zach Drew:So I want to simply just tackle one of the myths today that is the accepted narrative of our young people, and that's that Christopher Columbus — in 1492, when he sailed the ocean blue — that man was a wicked, even a horrible human being, a greedy man motivated by a selfish lust for gold, and a cruel man who unjustly slaughtered indigenous people. False, false, and false. Now I'm going to take you and correct those three different views in the modern academic world.
Zach Drew:And understand that whenever I quote these things to you — you're going to have them on graphics — most of the time when people talk about how he was an evil genocidal man who slaughtered the indigenous people and he had a selfish lust for gold, these narratives from the academic world — it's so important to understand this — they rarely ever have footnotes. It's opinion pieces. And the ones that do have footnotes, the writings rarely go back further than the 1990s. I'm going to be quoting things from personal memoirs, from actual letters that are dated from the 1400s, the 1600s, and the 1700s.
Philip:Yes, exactly.
Columbus's 1502 Book of Prophecies
Zach Drew:And I honestly believe, like you do, that America was established by the hands of God. It was ordained. So let's tackle the first one — Christopher Columbus was a wicked man. No. Christopher Columbus was actually a devout Christian man and a student of the Word. So the voyage was actually inspired, and we have record of it. He actually began a book — Christopher Columbus — and he didn't finish it because he passed away. He began a book in 1502. The book is called the Book of Prophecies.
Zach Drew:And there is a letter that he wrote to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, who financed his voyages, by the way. This is what he said to them. This is amazing. The entire voyage in and of itself was inspired by the Holy Spirit and a vision that Christopher Columbus received. Listen, folks. Here's what it says. He had seen and put in study to look into all the scriptures. Our Lord opened to my understanding — this is Christopher Columbus talking — I could sense his hands upon me, so that it became clear that if it was feasible to navigate from here to the Indies, that it was feasible.
Zach Drew:All those who heard about my enterprise rejected it with laughter, scoffing at me. Who doubts that this illumination was from the Holy Spirit? I attest that he, the Spirit, with marvelous rays of light, counseled me through the holy and sacred scriptures. No one should be afraid to take on any enterprise in the name of our Savior if it is right and if the purpose is purely for his holy service. His entire mission — inspired from the Holy Spirit.
Philip:Well, you know, another one is Christopher Columbus was a greedy man motivated by a selfish lust for gold.
Zach Drew:Like I said before, he was actually a very religious man, led by the Holy Ghost to this. Yes, led by the Holy Ghost. And let's just add one more on top of it — he had a passion for end-time prophecy. Isn't that incredible? So now, make no mistake about it, Christopher Columbus did want gold. He did. And Columbus told the king and queen of Spain that he would bring them a great deal of gold. But this gold wasn't for him. If he did bring them back all of this gold, there was a condition — he would ask the king and queen to fund his ultimate mission in life, which was an expedition to reclaim Jerusalem.
Columbus's Gold and the Jerusalem Mission
Zach Drew:That is what he was so passionate about. He explained to them — and here we have another graphic for this — that he would find a ton of gold, collected by barter by those he was to leave behind in the islands, and they would have found the gold or the mine, which is gold and spices, in such quantities that the sovereigns — being the king and queen — would in three years be able to undertake and fit out an expedition to go and conquer the Holy Sepulcher.
Zach Drew:You see, in his own studies he was a man of the Word. He understood that Jesus, whenever he returns, is coming back to Jerusalem. He understood that at that time that was Muslim-occupied territory. So he wanted to go to the new world. He said, listen, hey Queen, I'll bring you back all the gold you want, but please just finance this mission for me. It's so important to me. We've got to reclaim Jerusalem for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Zach Drew:So he didn't request it for himself. Here's another quote: that all the prophets of this, my enterprise, may since be seen in the conquest of Jerusalem. Amazing. And just one more for good measure — by the way, and this is historical fact — the indigenous people of that time in the Americas where Christopher Columbus was, and who he dealt with, which is primarily the Taino people, these indigenous people did not place any value on gold. They didn't place any value on gold, and actually at many different times in Columbus's own memoir, they tried to give him the gold — just give it to him — and every time Christopher Columbus refused, and he would always give them something of value in return, even when they requested it.
Columbus and the Taino People
Zach Drew:And here's the last one. I know we're probably running out of time here.
Philip:You're going to cover Columbus — is he a genocidal villain who slaughtered countless indigenous people?
Zach Drew:Okay, that's the biggest one, right? That's the one that we hear all the time. It's very, very important to note that Christopher Columbus, on his three journeys back and forth to the Americas, encountered two primary tribes. It was the Taino people and the Caribs. He loved the Taino people and the Taino people loved him. In his own writings he actually praised them as, quote, the best people in the world, and a better race there cannot be.
The Carib Tribe and the Cannibal Narrative
Zach Drew:In the letter of the Admiral to the nurse of Prince John, written near the end of the year 1500, Columbus even advocated for the Taino citizenship with civil rights. The Taino people would travel back and forth from the Americas to Spain. One Taino member of the Taino tribe actually even served in the royal government in Spain. Many of the Taino tribe followed Columbus until the day he died and even took his last name, because they had such a love and admiration for this man.
Zach Drew:But the Caribs were the other tribe, and they were the mortal enemy of the Taino people. This is where we also get the word Caribbean from — the Carib tribe. These Caribs were also known as the Canibas, short for cannibals, and like I said, they were the mortal enemies of the Taino people. So here's something interesting. The Caribs would routinely enslave the Taino people — and people don't understand that — and they would eat their bodies.
Zach Drew:But having found an ally in the Taino people, Christopher Columbus went back to Spain to bring back more colonists. But whenever he returned, he found that the Caribs had launched an attack on his people, and they had eaten the men and the colonists and enslaved the women. So what did he do? He did launch an attack on the Carib people. But no — he just unjustly slaughtered the indigenous? No. He launched an attack on a tribe that was literally cannibals. They were evil, wicked people.
Zach Drew:This is what a doctor accompanying Columbus wrote about the encounter and what they found after waging an attack. These captive women told us that the Caribbean men use them with such cruelty as would scarcely be believed, and that they eat the children which they bear to them. So they would store these women in cages, rape them and impregnate them, and when the women would give birth, they would eat their babies. This is the type of people that they were.
Primary Source Evidence vs. Academic Opinion Pieces
Zach Drew:Such of their male enemies as they can take alive they bring here to their homes to make a feast on them, and those who are killed in battle they eat up after the fighting is over. They claim that the flesh of man is so good to eat that nothing like it can be compared to it in all of the world. And this is pretty evident, for of the human bones we found in their houses, everything that could be gnawed had already been gnawed, so that nothing else remained of them but what was too hard to be eaten. And in one of the houses we found the neck of a man undergoing the process of cooking in a pot, preparatory for eating it. The habits of these Caribs are beastly.
Zach Drew:This is the actual narrative. So no, Christopher Columbus was not a wicked man. He was not a greedy man motivated by a selfish lust for gold, and he was not an evil man. And now you know the rest of the story.
Philip:Zach, I wish we had more time. We're going to have you back, because this is so important. You need to get in contact with Zach. It's the Zach Drew Show — it'll be on the screen for you. I want you to help this great ministry. They are right. I believe God for our miracle and our finances to help them buy more time and keep on the television where they are. America needs this kind of truth to be spoken. And that is just that — that is the revisionism and the lies that are being perpetrated by Marxism.
Philip:If you hear someone trying to revise history, you are listening to a Marxist. Understand that, and they have no bearing in truth. Zach, thank you so much for being with us. We love you.
Zach Drew:Thank you for having me. We ask everyone watching to be a part of your great ministry, and we thank you for watching Daily Faith today. We'll see you again. Bye-bye.
For over 25 years the Cameron family has been changing the lives of orphans in Romania and Moldova — from providing running water, flushing toilets, and clean wells, to coal for heat, new windows, as well as food and clothing. They championed the physical needs of the orphans in these broken and desolate countries. Many of Moldova's orphans are saved from the horrors of trafficking through homes founded by the Camerons, and in the process orphans become daughters and sons. They come to know their heavenly Father and are forever changed by the love of Jesus.
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