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Title: Great book for the budding apologist!
Review: This is a great book for any Catholic who has been handed an anti-Catholic tract or, worse has a friend or relative who's been bamboozled by one. You know the type -- 10, 20, 30 verses from sacred Scripture taken out of context plus some claims about what the Church teaches that are at best inaccurate and at worst, well, strange. (One of the amazing things about the World Wide Web is that you don't have to go far to find this kind of stuff. Sigh.)Karl Keating gives some helpful background information on some of the main groups pushing this stuff. More importantly, he demonstrates where their arguments go wrong: the parts of Scripture that they ignore or gloss over, what the more common Fundementalist "proof texts" actually mean, examines the evidence of history (which Fundementalists despirately need to understand!) and shows where they just flat out misunderstand what the Church teaches.
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