***The author is a self-righteous, pompous, pretensious ass in a lot of ways, ****
Well, when you consider he wrote it while spending close to nine years in prison for the crime of preaching without a license from the Chirch of England, and that England was very anti-catholic at that time, one might give him some slack.
The book is considered one of the great literary books of the 1600's, and we read excerpts from it in public high school.
Definitly better than any of the "Left Behind" crap.
Then there is always the SCREWTAPE LETTERS, another good read.
Sorry, that's like saying, "he spent nine years in a Nazi prison for being a gypsi, so cut him some slack for being anti-semitic"! Of all people, he should suspect the vicious slandering of Catholics by the Anglicans, and EMPATHIZE with their persistent faith among their persecutions!