Nor have they heard of Samson and Delilah, or the Witch of Endor, or David and Goliath, or ‘the still,small voice’, or trampling out the grapes of wrath, or ships that go down to the sea, or ‘let my people go’ or ‘feed my sheep’ or any of the other thousands of references that inhabit our daily discourse, which all come from the Bible.
Or if they have heard them they don’t know where they come from. they have been robbed of a great literary tradition as well as a spiritual one.
But they know everything about Paris Hilton, Lyndsey Lohan, and so forth.
There are many who don’t realize that the Golden Rule contains the words of Christ. Or as in the case of our President, don’t even know what the Golden Rule is.