The same people who excoriate Columbus are strangely short of righteous indignation when it comes to Pol Pot, Mao Tse-Tung, Castro, or any number of truly evil men in our day. Another example of the work of the radical historians, related to the first, is the glorification of the American Indian. The concept of the noble savage has always been valuable to revolutionaries seeking to undermine the Christian worldview. The noble savage supposedly enjoyed perfect harmony with nature, had plenty to eat and drink, and was free from materialistic cares and other problems of modern Western civilization. According to the noble savage idea, man's problem isn't sin, it's contact with Christian civilization.
Some historians push the noble savage idea to ridiculous lengths.
Some tell us that prior to the coming of the Europeans, the North American natives reverenced the land and had no pollution, they suffered no discrimination, and they lived in an egalitarian paradise. No less than Kirkpatrick Sail makes this claim in his book, Conquest of Paradise. He actually believes that when the Indians migrated from Mongolia across the Bering strait, the cold temperatures froze and killed the germs in them so that they were free from both endemic and epidemic scourges. The noble savage myth is the foundation of the revival of paganism in our day. Fallen men are drawn to the idea that a community of love, environmental sensitivity, toleration, and health supposedly existed apart from Christianity.