Puritan children in colonial America were learning Greek, Hebrew, and Latin in elementary school. At age 11, Cotton Mather was writing sermon notes in Latin while listening to an English preacher.

Today? "Christian" kids think Shadrach, Meschach, and Abednego were threatened to be thrown into a fiery furnace for not singing a song about a giant chocolate bunny, and that the story of Gideon features Gideon selecting his 300 based upon who did not get a brain freeze after drinking a slushy. (Looking at you, Veggie Tales.)

How has Babylon fallen!