The Religion of Syncretism One of the crazes among people searching to regain a spiritual compass in their lives is what lexicographers calls syncretism .
Syncretism is popular because the two leading competitors for the hearts of men are less so.
The first is the word of God contained in the Bible. Its popularity among men has waned because it is perceived to be antiquated and its texts unsatisfactory in meeting today's concerns. The second is the religion taught in your public schools, secular humanism, in which each individual is instructed to be his own god and make his own standard of morality. Naturally, many turn first to the Bible, but its instruction is, for them, further in the opposite direction than they intended to travel. The magic solution is to mix the desirable liberties of humanism with the basic guiding force of the Bible.