A combination of 5 basic beliefs held by the youth of today when it comes to religion:
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| Divine Butler? Cosmic Therapist? |
- A god exists who created and ordered the world and watches over human life on earth.
- God wants people to be good, nice, and fair to each other, as taught in the Bible and by most world religions.
- The central goal of life is to be happy and to feel good about oneself.
- God does not need to be particularly involved in one's life except when God is needed to resolve a problem.
- Good people go to heaven when they die. Wikipedia
More from The Christian Post- "The kind of responses found among many teenagers indicates a vast emptiness at the heart of their understanding. When a teenager says, "I believe there is a God and stuff," this hardly represents a profound theological commitment." There's more- "We now face the challenge of evangelizing a nation that largely considers itself Christian, overwhelmingly believes in some deity, considers itself fervently religious, but has virtually no connection to historic Christianity. Christian Smith and his colleagues have performed an enormous service for the church in identifying Moralistic Therapeutic Deism as the dominant religion of this American age."
As Nollie Malabuyo puts it - "Christless pastors, in Christless megachurches, producing Christless “Christians.”
R. Beck says- "In fact, when you hear Americans say "I'm not religious, but I am a very spiritual person" the general gist of what they are saying is that they subscribe to Moralistic Therapeutic Deism."
As K.C. Dean describes it - "It's a watered-down faith that portrays God as a "divine therapist" whose chief goal is to boost people's self-esteem."
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God. Leviticus 20:7
