{"id":1828,"date":"2011-11-04T14:09:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T22:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2011-11-04T15:50:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T23:50:08","slug":"1828","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/04\/1828\/","title":{"rendered":"Moralistic Therapeutic Deism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/moralistic-therapeutic-deism-the-new-american-religion-6266\/\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8220;Moralistic Therapeutic Deism&#8211;the New American Religion&#8221; <\/a>By R. Albert Mohler, Jr., Christian Post Columnist<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;religious beliefs held by American teenagers, they found  that the faith held and described by most adolescents came down to  something the researchers identified as &#8220;Moralistic Therapeutic Deism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moralistic Therapeutic Deism consists of beliefs like these: 1. &#8220;A god  exists who created and ordered the world and watches over human life on  earth.&#8221; 2. &#8220;God wants people to be good, nice, and fair to each other,  as taught in the Bible and by most world religions.&#8221; 3. &#8220;The central  goal of life is to be happy and to feel good about oneself.&#8221; 4. &#8220;God  does not need to be particularly involved in one&#8217;s life except when God  is needed to resolve a problem.&#8221; 5. &#8220;Good people go to heaven when they  die.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am guilty of representing the gospel in a simplified moralistic therapeutic deism way.<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s go back to the true gospel, not an Americanized feel good version.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/johnortberg.com\/?p=56\" target=\"_blank\">More on moralistic therapeutic deism <\/a>by John Ortberg, one of my favorite authors.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8220;Moralistic Therapeutic Deism&#8211;the New American Religion&#8221; By R. Albert Mohler, Jr., Christian Post Columnist &#8230;religious beliefs held by American teenagers, they found that the faith held and described by most adolescents came down to something the researchers identified as &#8220;Moralistic Therapeutic Deism.&#8221; Moralistic Therapeutic Deism consists of beliefs like these: 1. &#8220;A god exists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}