WTF Textbooks

Hands up all those who've heard this one before!

It's a pretty striking difference from how the textbook talks about Reagan, isn't it? No "the undefinable quality called leadership" speak here. Instead they imply that FDR was running a con on the American sheeple for power. 

...nobody's saying anything remotely like that.

Behold, probably the only nice thing the authors have ever said about any Muslim population anywhere.

1. It's funny they should say that, because if there's anything these textbooks have been, it's an intellectual experience - just not in the way any of the authors have meant it to be.

2. The utter refusal to give other religions their proper names is really very silly. Saying "Hindu" or "Buddhist" won't give anyone the unchristianity cooties, I promise.

The Bible doesn't say anything about America either, but that doesn't stop the authors from living there.

Imagine, the people whose contact with Europeans was extremely limited (if they had it at all) didn't know about the Bible! It's almost like, I don't know, like as if the "truth of the Scripture" as the authors understand it isn't self-evident at all!

Like you really thought they'd talk about anything else.

It's amazing how many health problems this book thinks could be avoided if one just believes in God enough. This approach to addiction in particular looks counterproductive to me - likely to heap additional guilt on Christian drug addicts and likely to inspire contempt for addicts rather than compassion.

And with this the textbook is pretty much done with discussing black leaders against slavery.

This is supposed to be a science textbook, not an ad for McDowell's book. As for the rest of it, I don't think any of us really expected anything else from a text published by Apologia Press, did we?

Full marks if you can blame atheists for everything.

How dare anyone criticise America? They just don't love America enough!

Here we see that the old advice of "show, don't tell" sometimes needs to be applied in textbooks too.

Accepting evolution is just plain silly.

It's okay to be a brutal fascist dictator overthrowing the elected government of your nation and to take assistance from Nazis if you're fighting socialists.

No, you.