The Gallup organization regularly conducts polls to determine the religious beliefs and practices of modern Americans. Despite new attitudes about morality, fluctuations in church membership, higher levels of education, and so on, there have been remarkably few changes in responses in recent years. The polls generally show that about 95% of us believe in a God of some sort. People may call God by different names, if indeed they believe that God is callable at all, but they do believe that a God exists. In reference to our lesson, over 80% of America believes that the Ten Commandments are still valid for today. Terrific. But of that 80+%, less than half can name even five of them. The Ten Commandments are in trouble.

We should have known it. If we had been listening, Ted Turner would have …