“We live in an anti-wisdom culture and the single stupidest place is the university,” he said. “I say that not as an insult but as a description.” “Idiocy is common on our college campuses and there is a reason. The campus is the most God-free, Bible-free arena in American life and that produces stupidity,” he added.

The removal of the Bible from American culture is a recent phenomenon, Prager said, but one that is already wreaking havoc in US society. “It was understood until the mid-twentieth century that the Bible was your source of wisdom and now people’s sources of wisdom are the New York Times and the like, which are very, very foolish places,” he said. “If we don’t reassert the greatness of this book, we’re doomed,” he concluded.

“There’s a line in Deuteronomy that says you shall keep these laws because they are wisdom and understanding in the eyes of the nations,” he said, referring to Deut. 4:6. “If what you are doing doesn’t make sense to the nations, then it’s a worthless project.” “This is God speaking,” he said.