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This book made me incredibly angry. I am an agnostic, who is open-minded. I read a large portion of this book for a morals in education course I am taking. The book made me angry because the author is an expert at using logical fallacies to make his point, and most of the public will buy into this, hook, line, and sinker. The case is made (repeatedly, ad nauseum) that the second amendment means we cannot privilege religion OR NON-RELIGION in the public schools. That schools have a legal, moral, and ethical obligation to include religion in all facets of the curriculum. It is not OK to expose children to a secular, irreligious education, but it is OK, apparently to require students to take a religious studies course. And no, the author is not just talking the historical, academic treatment of religion in history and literature. The author expects us to provide "alternative viewpoints" in the science classroom, math classroom, and economics classroom. No joke, neo-classical economics is secular and value-free, and teaching this without a balance from the Bible conveys to students to think uncritically about the world around them.
The book does a good job of seeming reasonable at the beginning and slowly lapsing into straw man and loaded question type fallacies. Time spent reading this book is time I won't ever get back.
The book does a good job of seeming reasonable at the beginning and slowly lapsing into straw man and loaded question type fallacies. Time spent reading this book is time I won't ever get back.
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