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Do you get tongue-tied when asked to name the Twelve Apostles? Do you think Adam's wife was Joan of Arc? Tomb Raider Angel Of Darkness Keygen For Mac on this page. If so, join the crowd. The United States is one of the most religious places on earth, but it is also a nation of religious illiterates. Many Protestants can't name the four Gospels, many Catholics can't name the seven sacraments, and many Jews can't name the first five books of the Bible. And yet politicians and pundits continue to root public policy arguments in religious rhetoric whose meanings are missed, or misinterpreted, by the vast majority of American citizens. This is in my view a major problem in contemporary civic life.

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'Religious Literacy,' which will be published by HarperSanFrancisco on March 1, 2007, explores this problem, pinpointing key moments in U.S. History that spawned our current epidemic of religious illiteracy and offering practical solutions to remedy this problem, including mandatory religion courses in the public schools. The book also includes a Dictionary of Religious Literacy with key terms, beliefs, characters, and stories that every American needs to know in order to make sense of religiously inflected debates: from abortion and gay marriage to Islamic terrorism and the war in Iraq.