A series of social studies textbooks are coming under fire because they make positive references to Christianity and mention Moses and the Ten Commandments.

The Texas Board of Education is voting on the textbooks that state the Ten Commandments were an influence on the founding of the nation and the laws of the country.

The textbooks also contain factual information such as terrorism being linked to Islam and challenges to climate change claims.

“These textbooks were teaching pretty much the opposite of the truth,” Emile Lester, a reviewer from the University of Mary Washington, stated. “You would hope publishers felt their main allegiance be to the education of students, but it was quite obvious that their main goal was to appease members of the State Board of Educators.”

However, supporters of the textbook say the anti-Christian people attempting to stop the books are allowing their hatred of people of faith to influence the truth of the nation’s history.

“[L]et us not forget the religious character of our origin,” American statesman Daniel Webster declared during his famous “Plymouth Oration” in 1820. “Our fathers were brought hither for their high veneration for the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of society, and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political or literary,” said David Bradley of the State Board of Educators.