How is your religious literacy?

One would expect that a Bible Quizzer's relgiious literacy is likely much higher than the average person on the street. But a new book argues that religious literacy is at a low ebb in America today, and that in a world where religion is driving much of what is happening around the world, this is dangerous.

Scholars and theologians who agree with him say Americans' woeful level of religious illiteracy damages more than democracy.

"You're going to make assumptions about people out of ignorance, and they're going to make assumptions about you," says Philip Goff of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at Indiana University in Indianapolis...

We're impoverished by ignorance," says the Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, former general secretary of the National Council of Churches. "You can't draw on the resources of faith if you only have an emotional understanding, not a sense of the texts and teachings."

The author of the book argues that classes on religion in general should be a mandatory part of the high school curriculum, and Bible courses should be offered to all. What do you think? Is this a good idea or a dangerous violation of the separation of church and state?