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May 28, 2026

Why American Democracy Needs the Bible

Losing and recovering our religion.

As America becomes less religious, fewer young people are familiar with Scripture, and are thus less likely to understand foundational texts from Shakespeare and Jane Austen to the speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. Worse still, the idea of human rights “endowed by the Creator” is becoming unintelligible to many citizens. Jason Bedrick writes:

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