From the Barna Group Website, today: Posted on January 12, 2009 For much of America's history, the assumption was that if you were born in America, you would affiliate with the Christian faith. A new nationwide survey by The Barna Group, however, indicates that people's views have changed. The study discovered that half of all adults now contend that Christianity is just one of many options that Americans choose from and that a huge majority of adults pick and choose what they believe rather than adopt a church or denomination's slate of beliefs. Still, most people say their faith is becoming increasingly important as a source of personal moral guidance. Choosing a Faith The survey shows half of Americans believe the Christian faith no longer has a lock on people's hearts. Overall, 50% of the adults interviewed agreed that Christianity is no longer the faith that Americans automatically accept as their personal faith, while just 44% disagreed and 6% were not sur...
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The problem western Christians have with meditation is cultural, not religious. They've unthinkingly bought into the modernist point of
view which is totally materialistic. When I taught at Messiah, at least once the parents of a student complained to the Dean about some
imagining exercises I did with Acting students. I was using "meditation," which was clearly not Christian. Such is the stupidity of certain evangelical Christians who don't even realize that it's THEIR viewpoint that's not Christian.