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Title: Another textbook ripoff
Review: As a person who is serious about history, this thing stinks. It is filled with inaccuracies and the author's bias is shameless. He includes the popular hot buttons of today, like little sections about Women and the Oppressed, while ignoring other groups completely. He accurately refers to the fact that historians agree that the early parts of the Old Testament are not factually based. To my astonishment, he begins his description of Christianity by talking about the story of Jesus using only the Bible as his source, as if it were all agreed upon as fact. He also refers to Martin Luther as destroying the unity of Christendom. What is it with this guy? Does he work for Mel Gibson? Little wonder that he has written one of those books chosen by History Departments and costs ten times what it's worth, changing editions just often enough so that you can't buy an old one and this site offers a big $3.50 for your trade in. What a racket.
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