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i ask students in a class if i refer to a book, i teach american literature, huckleberry finn, two or three out of the 20 students in class have read it, the great gaps the, the most popular ones these days for high school reading of to kill a mockingbird, probably the most popular novel that is chosen in high school. but only 20% of the kids, there is a report under this from a few years ago. this is a unique condition in american life for 150 years in schools and out of schools the bible was the book everybody knew. the bible was everywhere. it was in political discourse, it was in school reading books, the american primer, everyone read the bible. if you did not actively reading you heard it redding church, at the dinner table, that was the book that was common to everyone. i have my american literature students all read portions of genesis and leviticus which is very important at the time of the founding, and the sermon on the mount. president obama in his first inaugural used the phrase put away childish things. that is not the sermon on the mount. that is much later. okay. i am