Some Protestant Sunday schools, as recently as five years ago, were still teaching that the Catholics were "papists" and "enemies of the Gospel," and that the Jews had suffered through history under a curse because their ancestors had murdered Jesus. Most of such obvious examples of church baiting have now been blue-penciled away, often because they were singled out and criticized by Dr. Bernhard Olson, a Methodist who teaches at Union Theological Seminary. In a new book, Faith and Prejudice (Yale; $7.50), Olson shows how religious-text writers have often carried teaching beyond the statement of the essential doctrines into...
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