EO> Thank you!!  I'll send your post to a friend of mine, who is building
 EO> up a Homeschool Academic Network, when it comes through.  If you can
 EO> let me know if those Christian Press and others are "religiously
 EO> slanted" on their US history, world geography, etc. I'd greatly
 EO> appreciate it!
 BL>  I'm not sure if this is what you are interested in knowing, or not...
 BL>  we recently bought a bunch of A Beka books for Will. I had looked
 BL>  through them but apparently not enough. In the beginning of the World
 BL>  History and Cultures book, it tells us that humans started in 4000 bc,
 BL>  because the bible says so, and then does quite a bit of "history" in
 BL>  the next 2 chapters based on biblical "sons begetting sons", etc.
Yes, this is a part of it...  It takes an older child to understand that sort 
of thing, especially if the family isn't that strictly religious.
 BL> I can deal with it, knowing that the dinosaurs *Did* exist, and this is
 BL> all slanted, but Will really gets in a dither. It really annoys him that
 BL> this is so "wrong"! I didn't know how history could be slanted from a
 BL> "Christian" viewpoint, but now that I see it, it really makes me wonder
 BL> about the term "Christian".
Many religious leaders have dithered and battled over such things.  But, if 
you can find that issue of _Time_ magazine that discusses religion and 
history(it's less than six months old), you come to find out that much of 
what's listed in the Bible as history really -is- documentable history -- 
even in the old testament.  That way, you just have to start showing your son 
that other cultures did the same sort of "creative editing"...  That the 
difference between a guerilla-warfare terrorist and a revolutionary hero is 
the final winner of the conflict!
B*B!
Eileen
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