It's Friday, May 22, 2006.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

The issue of religious literacy is a public issue, and we as Christians ought to pay a bit of attention to this.

It has a great deal to do

with how our society is changing in terms of morality, worldview, very comprehensive change. And we

understand that. We talk about the process of secularization, the lessening of Christian influence

in society. And we as Christians come to it understanding that this society is understandable

and values truths that are anchored only in biblical Christianity. And thus it is Christianity

that's essential for explaining the American order, or for that matter, Western civilization.

But it is interesting that for the first time in the history of this civilizational trajectory,

you have large groups of people who don't know anything of what you're talking about

when you talk about biblical Christianity or the Bible or, say, the Ten Commandments.

That becomes very interesting.

It's presented in a recent editorial published in the Washington Post.

So this is an opinion column published in the Washington Post. So this is an opinion column

published in the Washington Post. It's by Gregory Conti, who's identified as an associate professor

of politics at Princeton University. So, okay, well, this gets really interesting. Even more

interesting than the article seems to acknowledge, because we are talking about Princeton University, which was established

by Christians largely for the perpetuation not only of the Christian ministry, but of Christian

learning. We're talking about institutions that once had Jonathan Edwards, for example, as its

president, but we're also talking about one of the most elite academic institutions in the United States.

And even as Princeton has a more conservative reputation than some of the fellow members of the Ivy League,

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