SHOCK: Americans Ditch Biblical Worldview For ‘Fake Christianity’, MTD
By Western Journal. American Christianity has fallen. Thanks to cultural corrosion and a lack of biblical literacy, a new “fake Christianity” has raked the dry ground of the American church. . .
George Barna, director of research at Arizona Christian University, said MTD — or “watered-down, feel-good, fake Christianity” — is “the most popular worldview in the United States today,” according to Christianity Daily. A recent poll conducted by ACU found that 38 percent of adults hold this view.
What’s more, three out of four people who hold to MTD still consider themselves Christians. (Read more from “SHOCK: Americans Ditch Biblical Worldview For ‘Fake Christianity’, MTD” HERE)
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What is MTD, and how prevalent is it in America?
By CRC Staff. New findings from the American Worldview Inventory 2021 show that nearly four of 10 adults (38%) are more likely to embrace elements of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism than other popular worldviews, including Biblical Theism (or the biblical worldview), Secular Humanism, Postmodernism, Nihilism, Marxism (along with its offshoot, Critical Theory) and Eastern Mysticism (or “New Age”). . .
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism (or MTD) was initially identified and named by sociologists Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton in their book, Soul Searching, published in 2005. It was based on national research among the teenagers of the turn of the millennium. At that time Smith and Denton identified several core beliefs that characterized the thinking and behavior of the group. Those components included:
● Belief in a God who remains distant from people’s lives
● People are supposed to be good to each other (i.e., moral)
● The universal purpose of life is being happy and feeling good about oneself
● There are no absolute moral truths
● God allows “good people” into Heaven
● God places very limited demands on people . . .
AWVI 2021, the first-ever national study of biblical and competing worldviews, found that although three out of four people (74%) who embrace MTD consider themselves to be Christians, only one-sixth (16%) qualify as born-again based on their theology. The study also found that the beliefs of the vast majority of this group conflict with basic biblical teaching. For example, they:
● Do not believe that people are sinful and need salvation through Jesus Christ (91%)
● Trust sources other than the Bible for moral guidance (88%)
● Contend that good people get to Heaven through good behavior (76%)
● Do not believe that the Bible is true and reliable communication from God (71%)
(Read more about MTD HERE)
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