[ywvcbk]

Why would anyone ever think that it could have been anything but a coincidence?

Who would have sponsored his expedition knowing that Columbus would be legally banned from entering the country if he was successful? That just seems silly…

[lolinder]

I think the argument goes that Columbus was a closet Jew who scheduled the expedition with symbolic meaning that only he would know.

It's definitely a Dan Brown plot, but it's not entirely inconceivable.