Speaker 1: This is Seth Leibson for town hall dot Com. Recently,
Speaker 1: a professor of politics at Princeton wrote an op ed
Speaker 1: pointing out how many of his students and students at
Speaker 1: other colleges simply are unfamiliar with the Ten Commandments. He writes, quote,
Speaker 1: they lack religious literacy, and their ignorance of religious ideas
Speaker 1: means they struggle to understand a wide array of Western art, literature,
Speaker 1: and philosophy close quote. They also wouldn't understand a great
Speaker 1: deal of history, never mind political philosophy from Marx Rousseau,
Speaker 1: or recognize lines from Shakespeare to our founding, to Frederick
Speaker 1: Douglas to Lincoln to Martin Luther King Junior. This is
Speaker 1: what the late Richard John Newhouse worried about decades ago
Speaker 1: in America, with an increasingly naked public square bear of
Speaker 1: any religiosity or recognition of religious faith or culture. What
Speaker 1: new House feared is now nearly complete, when students at
Speaker 1: major universities are now illiterate in the cornerstone of Western civilization.
Speaker 1: Many states right now are debating posting the Ten Commandments
Speaker 1: in K twelve classrooms. This wouldn't be a parochial decision.
Speaker 1: It would rather constitute necessary basic and remedial education unset
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