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in Religion Class in 1945
Sometimes
thrift stores are a source of valuable information. Not long ago I found a
religion text book for the Junior year of high school copyrighted in 1945 by
Mentzer, Bush & Company in Chicago. It’s called The Ark and the Dove…as in “the Dove guides the Ark through the
ages.”
Below is the entire
excerpt on Islam (pp 290-292), which in 1945 was called Mohammedanism. There
was no smarmy political correctness in Catholic religion classes in 1945.
Mohammedanism Threatens the Church
Still farther to the East, gigantic
forces were gathering for another and a prolonged assault on Christ’s Church.
In the year 610 a man named Mohammed began preaching in Mecca, a city in
Arabia. He claimed he was called to preach by the angel Gabriel. He opposed
polytheism and taught a strange mixture of paganism, Judaism, and Christianity.
In 622 he was forced to flee from Mecca to Medina. This flight is known as the Hegira.
