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Democracy and Intolerance

by Frances R. A. Paterson

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ISBN13: 9780873678421
ISBN10: 0873678427
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Like 19th century American Catholics, conservative Protestants have promoted alternative schooling for their children because secular schools in the United States are viewed as hostile to their worldview. Paterson (educational leadership, Valdosta State U.) examines textbooks used by this movement, finding them to be frequently filled with editorial material that promotes an intolerant fundamentalist theology in expected and unexpected places. She explores how the texts promote religious, social, and political agendas.
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gtt6405, June 19, 2006 (view all comments by gtt6405)
I cannot rate Paterson's book since I have not read it yet. However, I have read two of her articles that present a similar ideology. Paterson's mantra is "tolerance," which she makes the supreme good of schools and textbooks. Paterson forgets that education (like everything else) is an inescapably religious activity and proceeds from certain presuppositions about God, man, and law. Paterson is not a Christian, so her agenda for education proceeds from her non-Christian (anti-Christian) worldview. If Biblical Christianity (the Gospel according to the Bible and the Reformation) is true, then all other faiths are false. Period. Even Roman Catholicism, although it contains much Christian truth, is false at base in its source of authority and plan of salvation. Likewise, Judaism, Islam, and Paganism (Buddhism, Hinduism, Shintoism, etc.) are false religions, even though they may contain inklings or vestiges of God's truth because of general revelation and common grace. Christian textbook publishers such as A Beka Book and Bob Jones University Press, accused by Paterson of "intolerance," are only being consistent with their convictions and true to their presuppositions, but no more so than secular textbook publishers with their Atheistic, Humanistic biases and ideologies.

There is one area with which I am in agreement with Ms. Paterson: I do not think the taxpayer should be compelled to support Christian schools through any scheme of "school vouchers" or "tuition tax credits." In fact, not only do I support the separation of church and state, but I also strongly urge the separation of school and state. I think the entire system of public (tax-supported, statist) education ought to be dismantled and disestablished in each of the several states. Let those who would commit their children to secular schools support those schools through tuition or assessment. I am tired of being forced (in a "democracy," no less) of being taxed to support a religion (Secular Humanism or Philosophical Naturalism) that is totally alien and contrary to my Biblical Christian beliefs and convictions.
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ISBN:
9780873678421
Subtitle:
(Christian school curricula, school choice, and public policy )
Publisher:
Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation
Location:
Bloomington, Ind.
Subject:
Church and state
Subject:
Church and education
Series Volume:
#69
Publication Date:
c2003
Pages:
199 p.
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