COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Americans like their religion. Nearly half go to church regularly, according to a study by the University of Michigan, and at least 85 percent believe in God, according to a study by Baylor University. Our money reads “In God We Trust,” and we buy Bibles by the bushel.
But when it comes to reading and remembering what’s in the Good Book, Americans just plain stink. According to a 2004 Gallup poll sponsored by the Bible Literacy Project, American teens barely know their 10 Commandments from their 12 disciples, or their Pauls from their Peters.
Of the more than 1,000 teens polled, only a third could pick out a quotation from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, and 25 percent didn’t think that the Old Testament’s King David was king of the Jews. Harper’s magazine reports that 12 percent of Americans say Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife....
Voddie Baucham | 9/4/2014
