Survey Looks at American Religious Beliefs

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UNITED STATES, October 10, 2002: In a new survey of American religious beliefs, conducted by the conservative Christian Barna Research Group, 44 percent of those surveyed said, “The Bible, the Koran and the Book of Mormon are all different expressions of the same spiritual truths,” while 38 percent of Americans disagreed with that idea. George Barna, president of the Ventura, California, based marketing research company, apparently alarmed at the results, said he thinks the results reflect an increasing inclusivity about faith among many Americans. “Christians have increasingly been adopting spiritual views that come from Islam, Wicca, secular humanism, the Eastern religions and other sources,” he said in a statement. “Because we remain a largely Bible illiterate society, few are alarmed or even aware of the slide toward syncretism — a belief system that blindly combines beliefs from many different faith perspectives.”