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Are public school textbooks biased? Are they censored? The answer to both is yes. And the nature of the bias is clear: Religion, traditional family values, and conservative political and economic positions have been reliably excluded from children's textbooks.

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Religious concepts and vocabulary are certainly censored in these textbooks.

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In grades 1 through 4 these books introduce the child to U.S. society - to family life, community activities, ordinary economic transactions, and some history. None of the books covering grades 1 through 4 contain one word referring to any religious activity in contemporary American life.

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There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books... The dominant theme is the denial of religion as an actual part of American life.

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Paul Vitz

Paul Vitz

Born: August 27, 1935 (age 89)

Bio: Paul C. Vitz is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at New York University, whose work focuses on the relationship between psychology and Christianity. He currently teaches at the Institute of the Psychological Sciences in Arlington, VA.

Known for:

Faith of the Fatherless (1999)
Psychology as religion (1977)
Sigmund Freud's Christian unconscious (1988)

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