Posted on 03/09/2023 6:02:15 PM PST by marshmallow
CP) The vast majority of Americans — 96 per cent — do not hold to a biblical worldview following the COVID-19 lockdowns, according to a new survey.
Calling it a "significant change" in Americans' worldview, the Cultural Research Center of Arizona Christian University led by researcher George Barna found in its survey that the lockdowns impacted the already-dwindling number of people who claim to hold a biblical worldview.
In what Barna called the first national study of its kind, the incidence of biblical worldview declined to a mere 4%, down one-third from the 6% recorded just months before the pandemic lockdowns started in March 2020.
"Americans tinkered with many things during the three lockdown years — from home-improvement projects to baking sourdough bread — but improving their worldview apparently was not one of them," Barna wrote.
A biblical worldview, the survey said, is one in which the entirety of a person's "ideas about all dimensions of life and eternity are based on biblical principles and commands."
The data — which was part of a survey that began in 2020 known as the American Worldview Inventory (AWVI), which evaluates the worldview of the U.S. adult population — also found the pandemic fueled a decline in biblical worldview even among those who identify as born-again Christians, from 19% pre-pandemic to 13% post-pandemic.
Using a metric that measures worldview segments across three categories, the AWVI showed the bulk of the American public falls into what it calls the World Citizen category, those who may embrace some biblical truth but "believe and behave in ways that are distinct from biblical teaching."
While 82% are in the World Citizen category, only 69% identified as such in 2020, marking a sharp jump in the number of Americans drifting from exclusively biblical teaching.
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So this is a baseline study?
I love the ‘RAPTURE’ crowd stamping
Their feet saying “Take Me Now Jesus!”
They’ve bought their Ticket out.
My personal observation of rush hour traffic says someone is wishing instead of counting.
What a bizarre comment
survey?
Did they count church attendance? Other than that, these surveys should be ignored.
I consider it a Bizarre belief.
Thanks
“Few there be that find it”.
So, the study found that Christians are not perfect. Duh!
The population surveyed was only 2,000 adults. The method was telephone and online interviews (both quite problematic) conducted in January in 2020 and 2023. Whether or not these are the same 2,000 is not clear. However, no data is shown about dropout rates so I suspect these may be two separate survey populations.
Maybe this tells us something about 96% of those actually surveyed? Even that is hard to say.
Rick Warren relied on heavily on Barna’s earlier surveys in his book, The Purpose Driven Church. Looking back, I think that was the beginning of my growing mistrust in surveys.
I don’t trust any statistic nowadays.
I would guess that keeping folks away from church for a long time, and watching elders, priests and pastors cower and follow the lead of politicians and pseudo-science surely didn’t helped the church.
The church was very wrong in following the world on this one.
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