Whitaker House, 2006, 288 pp., $19.99,
www.whitakerhouse.com
“America has been the target of a carefully crafted plan to undermine Christianity, patriotism, and freedom. It is a diabolical plan to deconstruct the whole of Western civilization! And the conspiracy is worldwide.”
Marlin Maddoux’s conspiracy theory blames public education as the vehicle for the demise of Western civilization. He uses extreme stories and examples as the basis for his
conclusion that every Christian child should be taken out of public school immediately. Written from a radical, narrow and biased viewpoint, Maddoux does not offer a true picture of the American public education system, but rather sound bites of the experiences of persons appearing on his radio program. It reads as a poorly written transcript based on personal politics rather than biblical truths. This conspiracy theory is not worth the time.
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Sonia Urban, youth counselor, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
