It tends to be everybody's problem.

I don't think teaching biblical literacy is the answer, I think we need to teach civics early and often.

I am not sure that it is in american churches interest to solve this problem in the short run. It makes it easier to use fear as a motivating factor for attendence to church services and voting behavior.

This is a bit a stretch, but it is an idea the came to me while listening to the story of Reverend Carlton Pearson on This American Life, [link|http://www.thislife.org|http://www.thislife.org]. The title of the piece is Heretics and was broadcast on 12/16/2005. A very interesting piece.