Revisionist Catholic history in 6th grade text book?

[Jolly_Joe]

Texas has been a big problem in textbooks in general. I think the winning campaign slogan of the elected board must have been “I is ignorant.”

Hopefully now that it is appointed rather than elected, things will change.

JJ

 

[rpp]

I don’t know why anyone would get upset.

0They are only trying to teach history.

What they are teaching is a FACT!!!

Is this class before or after they teach evolution as a FACT???

It would also be fact to teach that a European government once had a program to eliminate the what they determined were genetically inferior people. It would be fact to teach to they thought this was a good thing, that it would decrease the cost to governments to support those who needed significant medical aid by killing them. They were helping people by sterilizing them and killing the inferior to prevent them from creating more genetically inferior people whom the government would need to support. It would be a fact to teach that millions thought this was a good thing.

So, whether you think that this would be a good thing to teach people, it would not be a fact teach what this book is proposing,. because it is not fact.

Learn history before you start trying teach it. You demonstrate your lack of knowledge when you make such posts. Learn about what you post about rather than trying to twist historical facts like that European government that I referred to did.

 

[Sophie]

Christianity itself has been very much revised and changed immensely since it’s beginning. No Christian church today, not even the Catholic church, totally resembles the early Christianity of the New Testament or before the New Testament. All Christian leaders, whether Paul, the Pope or Luther, have made many changing in beliefs over time. So the arguement over who’s the leader is a mute point. The study of the origins of Christianity, or any religion, is the most valuable lesson anyone can undertake!

 

[St.Sebastian]

The textbook in question is coauthored by the National Geographic Society. It is definitely not a book with a Fundamentalist Protestant slant it, if anything, it would be rather hostile to a Fundamentalist Protestant viewpoint.

JJ

I appreciate the varying comments and suggestions. Although the book is published under the auspices of NGS, I don’t think that necessarily speaks for the authors views and the text in this section does not provide citations to show what sources the authors drew from for this view. My guess is they picked the easiest and obviously protestant view, as suggested by Edwin, but this may have been out of ignorance of the scholarship of the source. I remember Jimmy Akin using one of those 10 syllable words for “scholarly” writings that cite shoddy scholarship and this may well be an example of that phenomenon.

I decided not to deride the teacher or principal because I did recognize that they have nothing to do with the content, but I do intend to write the teacher a short note and ask her to consider this in future presentations of the class. I appreciate some of the comments and will incorporate some of them into the note.

Thanks again.

 

[St.Sebastian]

If you google the title, and if you re-check the OP, you will find something interesting, though…
OP is writing from Texas. And, according to google, there are two versions of “Our World Today: People Places and Issues”, and “Our World Today: People, Places and Issues:Texas Edition”…

Hmmm. I will check his book the next time he brings it home and let you know on that one.