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Weblog: Is Anybody Not Upset with Cardinal Ratzinger? (Except You John Paul II?)

Plus: George Barna helps those who want to help themselves, and other stories from other media sources around the Internet.

Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 9/01/2000 12:00AM

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Help yourself to biblical literacy

According to George Barna's latest survey, 75 percent of Americans agree with the statement, "The Bible teaches that God helps those who help themselves." Once again, Barna is upset. "The fact that most adults, born again or not, believe the Bible teaches that God helps those who help themselves exposes our theological cornerstone—that we are the center of all things, that it is up to us to determine our destiny, and that God is merely our assistant, not our foundation," But that's not all. Barna's group questioned people on 14 different items. "Only 3 of the 1002 adults interviewed—less than three-tenths of one percent—had both a firm and biblically-consistent opinion for all 14 of the items," Barna reports. Man, next we'll find out that "Money is the root of all evil" isn't really what the Bible says, either. (Click here for our August 9, 1999, article on recovering biblical literacy.)

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