Censorship?

If you were to write an encyclopedia of geology and you were an expert in the field of geology, would you tone it down in case people who didn't like geology complained? Of course not - and yet a publisher has pulled a Christian encyclopedia for just that reason.....

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.

What did the publisher expect when he contacted someone to create a Christian encyclopedia? A book about Buddahism? Perhaps a book on Geology? Can you imagine the outrage if this was done to any other "academic" tome? Or to a Koranic apologetic book?

One of the consequences of living in a free society is that you have to be adult enough to handle getting offended time to time. You also have to develop a thick enough hide that you can handle a book being published that does not cater to your likes and whims without calling for censorship of the book.

It's called tolerance - or does that no longer apply to the Christian community?????