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I don't want to say whether he is in Heaven or not because it's not my place.
On the matter of Columbus, he was very lucky that his inaccuracies blundered him into the American continent. The fable told by American Atheists in the 19th century was that Columbus was an intelligent businessman who had to fight with Catholics who thought the Earth was flat. In reality, the Catholics not only knew the Earth was spherical, but from Greek philosophers knew roughly its circumference. Combined with knowledge from Italian merchants on the distance to the eastern edge of Asia, it was well known one could not sail from Spain to Japan without running out of food.
Columbus believed the world was tiny and shaped like a pear. He never admitted he never reached Asia - perhaps he never knew - and butchered the natives because they did not have the riches he sought. These are not Godly actions, no matter who you are.
The resurrection of Columbus by the American Atheists was surprisingly horrendous for our faith's standing in the world. For so many people believed the stupidity of it that Americans were taught that the Bible teaches the world is flat and that most Europeans believed this - all lies - and this was used as part of the "conflict theory" that Christianity has always been opposed to science. Thence it was used as corroborating evidence for every future event. Anyone who proclaimed that the conflict theory was incorrect would be pointed to Columbus as proof. It was around this time that the Flat Earth Society - founded by Protestants who let Atheists interpret the Bible for them - came into existence.