Moralistic Therapeutic Deism--the New American Religion

http://www.crosswalk.com/news/weblogs/mohler/?adate=4/11/2005#1323494

[Crosswalk.com] April 11, 2005--When Christian Smith and his fellow researchers with the National Study of Youth and Religion at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill took a close look at the 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 "Moralistic Therapeutic Deism."