The Daily Beast<\/em><\/a> that tackles the need for something more than Biblical literacy, but from a different sort of angle.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeremy Myers wrote a blog post \u201cBiblical Illiteracy is Not a Problem.\u201d I really wanted to be able to disagree, given the title. But I don\u2019t. The point of his post is that, if Christians knew only small snippets of the Bible \u2013 \u201cLove God\u201d and \u201cLove your neighbor\u201d \u2013 and actually practiced it, that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":18891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,131],"tags":[1140,1846,3492,4994,6616],"class_list":["post-18870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible","category-christianity-religion","tag-bible","tag-christianity-religion","tag-fluency","tag-illiteracy","tag-literacy"],"yoast_head":"\n
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<\/a>The point of his post is that, if Christians knew only small snippets of the Bible \u2013 \u201cLove God\u201d and \u201cLove your neighbor\u201d \u2013 and actually practiced it, that would be OK, even if they did not know more. From this perspective, it is not illiteracy, but refusal to put into practice what we do know, that is the real serious problem.<\/p>\n