In reply to John Joseph Flanagan.

I would just like to humbly suggest that the Catechism Luther wrote was not just for the Christian children of his day. Luther knew that adults, both clergy and lay people, needed an elementary education on the basic tenets of the faith. The Catechism was for everyone. Luther gave the German people a Bible in their own language, while also unifying the country into a dialect that could be taught and understood by average Germans, raising the literacy rate in the process. With the Bible freely available today in all languages, it should be stressed by all pastors everywhere that it should be read often. The word of God, and the work of the Holy Spirit, offers protection from heresy and apostasy, and if it were read by more Christians, the polls mentioned by Dr. Veith might have indicated a better outcome for the church, and for American Christians today.