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A leading Christian researcher says the prevailing discontent among Americans regarding the nation's direction stems directly from their abandonment of a biblical worldview. Researcher George Barna says as much in a new report released on April 23 that finds few individuals hold a worldview consistent with Christianity. The 2024 American Worldview Inventory report found that 96 percent of Americans and 94 percent of self-identified Christians do not hold a biblical worldview. Barna is the research director at the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University.
Other surveys, he noted, have found that two-thirds of Americans say they are "dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country today."
"Yet few of them pause from their busy schedules long enough to consider that the problems they see are the result of increasing numbers of American adults making decisions based on shifting foundational beliefs and values," he wrote. "In fact, the social problems troubling the majority of Americans are likely a symptom of the unprecedented change in worldview preferences, in which longstanding biblical beliefs are being discarded in favor of a wide range of alternative views."
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Other surveys, he noted, have found that two-thirds of Americans say they are "dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country today."
"Yet few of them pause from their busy schedules long enough to consider that the problems they see are the result of increasing numbers of American adults making decisions based on shifting foundational beliefs and values," he wrote. "In fact, the social problems troubling the majority of Americans are likely a symptom of the unprecedented change in worldview preferences, in which longstanding biblical beliefs are being discarded in favor of a wide range of alternative views."
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