I’m not too sure what’s happening to the world, but it sure has become very unfriendly to Christians as of late. A female nurse got fired for offering to pray for an elderly person in her care (she was eventually re-hired). Another woman is being reprimanded at work because she wrote a letter asking for prayer. Now, we’ve got a publisher pulling a set of encyclopedias — on Christian civilization, none the less — for not being friendly enough to Islam. So, they would prefer history be re-written to make the acts of historical Muslims appear less aggressive and violent?

Wiley-Blackwell, a major academic publisher, is recalling copies of Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization and scrapping the print run after critics said the entries were “too Christian” and “too anti-Muslim.”

The publisher was set to release the four-volume encyclopedia this month after it was completed last September.

But a small group of critics that included contributors and some members of the editorial board objected to the final version.

“They determined that the Introduction and many of the entries were ‘too Christian, too orthodox, too anti-secular and too anti-Muslim and not politically correct enough for being used in universities,” said the encyclopedia’s editor, George Thomas Kurian, sounding angry in an e-mail sent last week to nearly 400 contributors.

The charge against the book was led by David Morgan, professor of Religion at Duke University, and Bernard McGinn, professor of Historical Theology and of the History of Christianity at The University of Chicago Divinity School, according to Kurian.

Blackwell subsequently decided to suspend the publication, recall copies already distributed, and destroy the existing print run.

Kurian called the move the “first instance of mass book-burning in the 21st century.”

The book was intended to be a comprehensive work on the history and legacy of Christianity, looking not only at the religion but at the aspects of society, such as art, literature, architecture, music, politics, and scholarship, it has shaped.

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WP-Bible plugin entries in the encyclopedia to make it politically correct before it can be reprinted, according to Kurian.

He also claimed the press is looking to delete words including, “Antichrist,” “Enemy,” “Beloved Disciple,” “Gates of Hell,” “Witness,” “Virgin Birth,” “Resurrection,” “Evangelism” and any reference with an “evangelical tone.” BC and AD, chronological markers for “Before Christ” and “Anno Domini,” will also likely to dropped.

Kurian also said the press objected to “historical references to the persecution and massacres of Christians by Muslims, but at the same time wanted references favorable to Islam.”

“To make the treatment ‘more balanced,’ they also want the insertion of material denigrating Christianity in some form or fashion. All these I have refused to do,” stated the encyclopedia’s editor.

He added, “This is the most blatant form of censorship in the history of religious publishing.”

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The world has to walk on egg shells for Islam… yet Christians have to put up with being descriminated against, having our GOD’s name taken in vain and our LORD and SAVIOR ridiculed and mocked. Yet a cartoon of their demon-worshiping prophet is strictly prohibited.

I don’t like this new world…