Did you know that Noah’s wife was Joan of Arc? Amazingly, only 30% of American Christians can name ONE of the four Gospels. About the same number know who gave the Sermon on the Mount. (No it wasn’t Martin Luther King, Jr.) With Easter around the corner, I shudder to think what people believe.
In a country that professes itself to be Rabidly Christian, we are Biblically Stupid. A new book by Stephen Prothero, chairman of the religion department at Boston University, has a great new book about the importance of religious literacy.
And no, it wasn’t Thomas Edison who said, “Let there be light.”
Read his OpEd in the Los Angeles Times of March 14.
Also, there is a good review of his book Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know—and Doesn’t in the Washington Post, March 4.
