Last year we celebrated the
400th anniversary of the King James version of the Bible. Unfortunately, while it's still selling like hotcakes, reading and studying the Bible went out of vogue sometime in the 20th century, and it shows. In an opinion piece for Fox News,
Eric Metaxas pokes a bit of fun at the media for citing the wrong author of a famous passage.
There is a remedy for ignorance that we might want to promote in
our schools, so that future journalists and writers won't make similar gaffes. Find out more at the
Biblical Literacy Project.
Comments:
There is another significant loss derived (I think) from biblical illiteracy, and that is the woeful weakness of public speaking, including politicians. When people's thoughts and speech-patterns were infused with Scripture, then the Hebrew parallelism came much more naturally, leading to speeches that were significantly more engaging.