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(This is from my upcoming book.) In 2005, reputable researchers Christian Smith and Melina Lundquist identified the predominate worldview among American teenagers as Moralistic Therapeutic Deism (MTD).1 They determined the creed of this worldview from interviews with 5,000 teenagers as consisting of five tenets:1 A God exists who created and…
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University of North Carolina sociologists Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton in 2005 published a massive study of the religious beliefs of teenagers. Their conclusion was that most of these teenagers adhered to a variation of Deism called moralistic therapeutic deism (MTD). This form of deism is certainly not limited…
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Christian Apologetics 