Candace Chellew-Hodge.
You can lead a person to a Bible, but you can't make him read it, much less act on what it says. Last year, the American Bible Society shipped out three more tons of Bibles than they shipped out last year, yet as ABS president R. Lamar Vest bemoaned to Gordon Robertson on the 700 Club, "Bible literacy continues to go down."
To prove that statement, ABS commissioned a poll by Harris Interactive asking some simple questions, including finding out if people knew who said this: "You must defend those who are helpless and have no hope. Be fair and give justice to the poor and homeless."
Fifty four percent of those asked got it wrong. Hint: It's not President Obama, which is what 16 percent thought. It's not the Dalai Lama who got 9 percent, or event Martin Luther King Jr. at 8 percent, or Oprah at 4 percent, or even U2 singer Bono who got a 3 percent response.
Instead, it's a verse from the Bible, Proverbs 31:8-9 to be exact.
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