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Most Americans say 'truth' is subjective, no absolute right or wrong: Poll
Oct 20, 2021 1 min, 27 secs
adults from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, shows that 54% of the survey’s participants embrace the postmodern idea that all truth is subjective and there are no moral absolutes.

Most people would say all truth is subjective and there’s no kind of objective truth based on an external standard.

Barna, the center’s research director, told The Washington Times the findings reflect ongoing sociocultural and political trends toward an emerging “nontraditional moral order in America” in which people no longer care about what’s true or false.

Interpersonal deception will become more common and we’ll have lower levels of trust toward other people, making it harder to have relationships because we’ll no longer trust that what other people tell us is real,” he said.

When you take absolute moral truth out of the equation, we’re no different from the cavemen,” he said.

The survey, which sampled 1,000 people by telephone and 1,000 people online questionnaires in February, found that 88% of respondents said they fashion a unique philosophy of life from the personally appealing parts of multiple worldviews.

“If there’s no absolute moral truth when the government is telling me this is the right thing to do, I’m going to automatically question it because a bunch of yahoos in Washington put it together.

Because everything is based on my needs and my feelings, I may choose to ignore the law and feel no remorse about that because I have to take care of myself,” he said.

The survey additionally reported that 39% of respondents said “human life has no intrinsic value,” 29% expressed “their commitment to getting even with those who wrong them” rather than forgiving and 28% said “they treat people based on their current feelings and circumstances.”

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