Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?

The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical controversies of the day. First things first. And planting the ideas of virtue, of good traits in the young, comes first. In the moral life, as in life itself, we take one step at a time. Every field has its complexities and controversies. And so does ethics. And every field has its basics. So too with values.

Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?

I do not suggest that you should not have an open mind ... but don't keep your mind so open that your brains fall out.

I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.

The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.

People of good character are not all going to come down on the same side of difficult political and social issues. Good people - people of character and moral literacy - can be conservative, and good people can be liberal. We must not permit our disputes over thorny political questions to obscure the obligation we have to offer instruction to all our young people in the area in which we have, as a society, reached a consensus: namely, on the importance of good character, and some of its pervasive particulars.