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> > But of course there really aren't too many non-Christians left who
genuinely
> know "nothing about the Bible" - anyone on the planet with *any* education
> at least knows who Jesus was.

There are some Americans, educated in the public schools and having had
little or no outside religious instruction, who probably almost literally
know nothing about the Bible just as they know literally nothing about the
classical world, unless they have seen Gladiator, or indeed about U.S.
history, except perhaps as it appears in some movie,  before 1980.  At least
that I what I have discovered when I try to find out what my students
already know.

J.F. Gannon (More in sorrow...)



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