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 In his article "My Quest to Help Americans Rediscover the Bible," Dennis Prager tells how he took a three-month break from writing daily columns "to finish the first volume of the biggest project of my life as a writer, a commentary on the first five books of the Bible, or what are called the Torah in Hebrew. The commentary is addressed to people of every faith and, especially, to people of no faith. "I have believed all my life that the primary crisis in America and the West is the abandonment of Judeo-Christian values, or, one might say, the dismissal of the Bible. Virtually everyone on the left thinks America would be better off as a secular nation. And virtually all conservative intellectuals don’t think it matters. How many intellectuals study the Bible and teach it to their children? "And yet, from the time long before the United States became a country until well into the 1950s, the Bible was not only the most widely read book in America — it was the primary vehicle by which each generation passed on morality and wisdom to the next generation. Since that time, we have gone from a Bible-based society to a Bible-ignorant one — from the Bible being the Greatest Book to the Bible being an irrelevant book." Dennis Prager is a pracicing Jew, but his diagnosis of the problem is spot-on. I grew up in the 1950s and can recall the shift from reading the Bible and saying the Pledge of Allegiance in grade school to dropping the Pledge and banning the Bible and prayer in high school. Significantly, this time period coincided with the creation of the U.S. Department of Education, its giving huge grants to local public schools, and dictating a secular curriculum. I was president of the Youth for Christ Bible Club in high school, but the club wasn't allowed to meet in the school building. I was asked to open my high school commencement ceremony with a squishy, "ecumenical" prayer, but I ended it with - "in Jesus' name, Amen." Get the whole story: read the full article & get our free weekly newsletter: subscribe below! |