{"id":12127,"date":"2009-04-06T22:04:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T22:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/christian_beliefs_still_strong_down_under_says_survey\/"},"modified":"2009-04-06T22:04:07","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T22:04:07","slug":"christian_beliefs_still_strong_down_under_says_survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12127","title":{"rendered":"Christian beliefs still strong Down Under, says survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MORE than four in 10 Australians who do not consider themselves &#8220;born again&#8221;&#8216; still believe Jesus rose from the dead, while one in 10 does not believe he existed.<\/p>\n<p>These were two of the surprising results from an independent survey of 2500 people, said noted author and church historian John Dickson, the co-director of the Centre for Public Christianity in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, to be published today, found that out of the 85 per cent who did not identify as born again &#8211; including those of other religions &#8211; 45 per believed in the resurrection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/christian-beliefs-still-strong-says-survey-20090406-9uwk.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MORE than four in 10 Australians who do not consider themselves &#8220;born again&#8221;&#8216; still believe Jesus rose from the dead, while one in 10 does not believe he existed. These were two of the surprising results from an independent survey<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12127\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,204,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-australia-nz","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}