NetDoc said:
Great Natas...
could you cite some of these "Christian Fundamentalist Textbooks" so we can see this "negative way"??? I am truly curious.
Here's just one example for our Catholic friends ---
"Anti-Catholic bias is most prevalent in books published by A Beka. One particularly striking aspect of the texts is the sense that theological battles of the Protestant Reformation continue unabated to the present day. In the texts, bias against Roman Catholics and the Catholic Church is exclusively theological rather than socio-cultural."
"Descriptions of contemporary life in European countries that are primarily Roman Catholic frequently include derogatory statements about the Church: Almost all the children of [the Republic of] Ireland grow up believing in the traditions of the Roman Catholic church without knowing of God's free salvation.
"A Beka's seventh grade world history book, for example, describes the early Roman church (before 500 A.D.) as a monstrous distortion of Biblical Christianity. 29 Speaking of the Crusades, the text speculates that if Christendom had succeeded with its crusades, distorted Christianity might have been imposed on all mankind. 30 In the chapter titled The Age of Darkness, which is subtitled Distorted Christianity, Holy Roman Empire, Renaissance, the author writes, The papacy had always distorted Christianity.
"In all, the seventh grade book uses the term distorted or its variants 28 times in the six chapters in which its discussions of the Roman Catholic faith are most concentrated."
"Tenth graders using A Beka books are taught that the doctrines and practices of the Roman church had digressed so far from Scripture that the church was compelled to keep its members from reading the Bible and discovering the truth.
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There are, of course, examples of bias against other religions also from this source.