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