Paul Vitz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Paul Vitz

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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.
-- Paul Vitz

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School textbooks have almost completely excised any reference to America's true religious heritage.
-- Paul Vitz

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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.
-- Paul Vitz

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Religious concepts and vocabulary are certainly censored in these textbooks.
-- Paul Vitz

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The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.
There is no kind of experience in which a Christian has a right to refuse to praise God, for 'all things work together for good to them that love God.'
I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.
A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'
I Am More Spiritual Than Religious; Besides I Am Not A Fanatic
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education
Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.
We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.
Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.

Paul Vitz famous quotes

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