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Poll: Most US adults hold to syncretist, not Biblical, worldview

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – A new survey has found that just six percent of American adults hold to a Biblical worldview, while nearly nine out of 10 holds to syncretism, a mixture of worldviews, Christian Headlines reports. The study was carried out by the Cultural Research Center (CRC) at Arizona Christian University on a nationally representative sample of 2,000 people in February 2021.

The research considered whether participants subscribe to a Biblical worldview or to one or more of six other major worldviews: Secular Humanism, Postmodernism, Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, Nihilism, Marxism (including Critical Theory), and Eastern Mysticism.

While only six percent of participants were found to hold to a dominant Biblical worldview, this outlook was still the most common among those listed, Christian Headlines reports.

The survey found that two percent of participants hold dominantly to Secular Humanism and one percent subscribe dominantly to Postmodernism, Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, and Nihilism respectively. Less than one-half of one percent of participants subscribe dominantly to Marxism (including critical race theory) and Eastern Mysticism.

However, the study found, 88 percent of US adults hold to a mixture of world views. “Rather than developing an internally consistent and philosophically coherent perspective, Americans embrace points of view or actions that feel comfortable or most convenient,” researcher Dr. George Bana said in a statement. “Those beliefs and behaviors are often inconsistent, or even contradictory, but few Americans seemed troubled by that.”

In regard to beliefs and behaviors, the study found that 39 percent of participants were strongly or moderately inclined toward Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, while 31 percent were strongly or moderately toward a Biblical worldview. A further 16 percent were strongly or moderately inclined toward Secular Humanism and Postmodernism, while 10 percent were strongly or moderately inclined toward Nihilism, Eastern Mysticism, or Marxism, Christian Headlines said.