Sr. Joan writes about political illiteracy:
"...it seems that we ignored the evaluation of ideas in this election..."

 Alan Levinovitz, an assistant professor of religion at James Madison University in Virginia, writes about religious illiteracy at VOX, Jan 5, 2017:
What liberal “elites” — believers and nonbelievers — find objectionable is not religion, but rather a partisan twist on religious literacy that privileges one tradition, excludes historical-critical study, and maintains, against all evidence, that education and exposure to multiple perspectives creates religious ignorance instead of dispelling it.
What liberals find objectionable is shameless propaganda that turns Christianity into a wedge issue — the war on Christmas! secular baby killers! destroying God’s vision of marriage! — as if there were no Christians who say, “Happy Holidays,” or believe God is fine with same-sex marriage, or think abortion should be legal.