DMI on Religious Illiteracy

Dave’s Mormon Inquiry: “Curing Religious Illiteracy” and how it started:

As denominations and sects proliferated, a counter movement stressing nonsectarianism and tolerance then emerged, which eventually jettisoned theological differences in favor of common ground in ethical norms. Morality displaced theology as the public component of religious discourse. The teaching of religion was gradually squeezed out of public schools and transferred to “Sunday Schools,” but even there teaching gradually shifted (well before television and video games shortened attention spans) from doctrine to storytelling. “Jesus loves me” replaced catechisms and rote memorization. This forgetting or failure to transmit religious culture accelerated after World War II, leading to the present era of faith without knowledge.