American Worldview Inventory 2021: America’s Dominant Worldview Syncretism
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"The groundbreaking worldview research conducted by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University in 2020 revealed that just 6% of U.S. adults have a biblical worldview. A new piece of groundbreaking research by the Cultural Research Center answers the question raised by the initial study: If American adults do not have a biblical worldview, what is the dominant worldview among the other 94%? The simple—and surprising—answer is, there isn’t one! Based on half-hour-long personal interviews with a nationally representative sample of 2,000 adults, the CRC study found that the most common worldview might best be described as Syncretism. That’s the summary name for a disparate, irreconcilable collection of beliefs and behaviors that define people’s lives. It’s a cut-andpaste approach to making sense of, and responding to life. Rather than developing an internally consistent and philosophically coherent perspective on life, Americans embrace points of view or actions that feel comfortable or seem most convenient. Those beliefs and behaviors are often inconsistent, or even contradictory, but few Americans seemed troubled by those failings."