Quote of the Day (Stephen Prothero, on “Religious Literacy”)

“Americans are doomed to repeat their earlier mistakes if they do not start to reconstruct the chain of memory that bound their ancestors to Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, and other religions. And those who are not religiously literate are doomed to marginalize themselves from debates on matters of no less importance than the fate of the Middle East, the religious freedoms of the First Amendment, the politics of Islam, and the propriety of gay marriage.”—Stephen Prothero, Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know—And Doesn’t (2007)