Moralistic Therapeutic Deism (Competing Worldviews)

The HousePlants Podcast

This is the start of a brand new series, Competing Worldviews. Each episode we will take a look at a popular or en-vogue worldview experiment and respond as Christians. A Worldview experiment is not so much a fully-fleshed out religion but a way to approach the world spiritually. They are kind of like home-brew personal religious worldviews and yet a lot of people have these, even Christians sometimes. For this first episode we will be taking a look at some beliefs that have been observed in young people in America and named by researchers as Moralistic Therapeutic Deism. Will this replace classic Christianity? Only time will tell. But we want to equip our listeners to know how a biblical Christian would respond to this and other Competing Worldviews.

SONG: Return, Return O Israel - Zak Kratzer (2020)

Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers (2005)

https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Searching-Religious-Spiritual-Teenagers/dp/0195384776