Along with the many depressing articles and books I've read lately comes this amazing little piece from NPR. My first surprise was that I have never thought of Mike Huckabee as a Biblical scholar and eloquent Biblical alluder. But secondly, what strikes me in this rather Jay-Leno-like article is that most of these folks claimed to be church-goers who attended Sunday School as children. Their ignorance of even obvious Biblical allusions is both astounding and sad. What were those Sunday Schools doing, anyway? Oh yes-- crafts and snacks, I guess. How horrifying that the church today in the West has forgotten its call, and totally confused its priorities. And let's forget the church for the moment and ask what ever happened to being culturally and academically literate? Literacy levels have always been spurred onward in cultures where the Word of God was being brought into the vulgar language, and the necessity of reading God's Word drove fervor for learning. Perhaps there is a connection between our plummeting literacy levels and the failure of the Church...
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