Spook the secularists...

. . . and celebrate the greatest banned book on Reformation Day | Marvin Olasky

As I noted two weeks ago, many high school students today do not know much about history. That holds for biblical history as well. One student wrote that in Genesis, "God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac on Mount Montezuma," and, "Jacob, son of Isaac, stole his brother's birth mark." A summary of Exodus went like this: "Pharaoh forced the Hebrew slaves to make bread without straw. Moses led them to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients. Afterwards, Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the Ten Commandments."

Some students, apparently, do understand the intricacies of church discipline. According to one test paper, "Martin Luther was nailed to the church door at Wittenberg for selling papal indulgences. He died a horrible death, being excommunicated by a bull."

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