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Ten Tortured Words: How the Founding Fathers Tried to Protect Religion in America . . . and What's Happened Since By Stephen Mansfield (Author) Our Price $ 22.87   Retail Value $ 25.99   You Save $ 3.12  (12%)   Item Number 36450   Buy New Item Quantity: 1              2 ABOUT TRUST ONLINE

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	What more can be said?  Apr 26, 2008
Many people more knowledgeable in American History than I have already said about all there is to say on the historical errors in this book. What a shame - I had high hopes for this book.
	Unintented Revisionism or Plain Bad Scholarship  Mar 9, 2008
I'm normally a science and math teacher. One book I normally assign to my AP students (Calculus, Chemistry and Physics) discusses the misuse of statistics. If I were teaching the AP U.S. History class, I would use this book as an example of poor historical scholarship. As it stands there is so much bad science out there that I have my students find and criticize it themselves. Bad history which creates misperceptions about our country is in another category. Science inherently acknowledges that it is a work-in-progress (except for evolution which is treated as iron-clad truth--don't get me started!). On the other hand, history books containing bona fide errors gravely disservice everyone. Buy this book only if you want to see what I mean by bad history!
	Sabotage Agenda By Leftists   Jan 22, 2008
After searching for the book "Ten Tortured Words" on the net back in August of last year, I found there was a concerted effort by a well known Leftist blog called Daily Kos, that encouraged their readers to go on this site and trash the book. No matter if the reviewers had read the book or not. Google "Ten Tortured Words," you'll see the Daily Kos page encouraging the deception. The object was to have large numbers say they reviewed the book, and by lying they had read the book, to deceive those of us that went on this site to find honest reviews of the books offered there. I've found that the Leftists are doing the same thing to another book on this site called "Liberal Fascists" by encouraging it's readers to post bogus negative reviews as well. I wanted to warn buyers on this site back in August of the deception, and orchestrated effort of these Leftists websites to deceive them by posting negative bogus reviews to sway the rating system and by doing that to discourage this site buyers from purchasing the book. But I waited, thinking that this site or someone surely would notify the buying public on this site of this despicable and deceitful effort by Daily Kos Leftists, as well as other Leftist websites to deliberately deceive the buyers on this site who wish only to read honest, truthful reviews without some sort of orchestrated agenda of deception. Any book should stand on it's on without being the subject of any groups efforts at tying to suppress the readership of a book by using orchestrated, bogus and deceitful tactics to corrupt the rating system. Using honest reviews is one thing, but encouraging reviews by those who have not read the book is another. The 17 negative reviews on this site were put there within a few days of Daily Kos initiating the deceptive assualt on the ratings system for "Ten Tortured Words." I know, because I watched it happen day by day, as I tried to find unbiased reviews of the book on this site. It seems to me the Left would like to suppress, or prohibit those books they do not agree with if it were possible for them to do so. Orchestrated, deceptive efforts to sway the rating system on this site is not the ethical way to refute what they perceive as errors in the book.
	Lamenting the "good old days"  Jan 18, 2008
This book does no more than wish that we were back in the '50s again. The author has done an adequate job of research into the topic of various court cases that he brings up as important to religious beliefs in this country. What he shows is that over the last 50 years, American society has become significantly more liberal. He blames that liberalism on the court system, and on lawmakers who accept court rulings without trying to override them by passing new bills in Congress. At the end of the book, I was expecting some sort of call to action to urge our Congressmen to pass new legislation that would perhaps restore some of the '50s ideals. Instead, he does mention that some pieces of legislation have been introduced, some more than once, but with no obvious chance of success. The ending was a surprise in its lack of an action plan and its level of depression. If you like to sit around with your friends and discuss the days when your kids could walk home from school without fear, when you could leave your house unlocked most of the day, and when practically everyone in your neighborhood went to church on Sunday morning, this is the book for you.
	EXCELLENT BOOK  Oct 13, 2007
I can see why some of the review writers are trying to discourage people from buying this book. If you are someone trying to get rid of the Christian heritage this nation has then this is not a book you want people reading. Mansfield has done an excellent job of telling the truth about our founding fathers and what they truly wanted for our country. If you want to know the truth, buy this book. It is very informative.

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