{"id":29403,"date":"2011-11-18T19:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/down_under_church_abuse_the_biggest_stumbling_block_to_christian_belief_sur\/"},"modified":"2011-11-18T19:00:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T19:00:13","slug":"down_under_church_abuse_the_biggest_stumbling_block_to_christian_belief_sur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29403","title":{"rendered":"Down Under, Church abuse the biggest stumbling block to Christian belief, survey finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Church abuse is the chief obstacle to Australians believing in Christianity, according to a national online survey of more than 1000 people conducted by a Christian media group.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Communities Report said more than three-quarters of respondents, 76%, said church abuse was a \u201cmassive\u201d\u009d or \u201csignificant\u201d\u009d negative influence on their attitudes towards Christianity and church.<\/p>\n<p>It said the top 10 \u201cbelief blockers\u201d\u009d for Christianity were church abuse, hypocrisy, \u201cjudging others\u201d\u009d, religious wars, suffering, issues around money, that it was \u201coutdated\u201d\u009d, Hell and condemnation, homosexuality and exclusivity.<\/p>\n<p>The report also found that doctrines and practices about homosexuality were a \u201cblock\u201d\u009d to belief for 69% of respondents, while those on Hell and condemnation (66%), the role of women (60%), suffering (60%) and science and evolution (57%) were also prominent obstacles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melbourne.anglican.com.au\/NewsAndViews\/Pages\/Church-abuse-the-biggest-stumbling-block-to-Christian-belief,-survey-finds-000206.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church abuse is the chief obstacle to Australians believing in Christianity, according to a national online survey of more than 1000 people conducted by a Christian media group. The Australian Communities Report said more than three-quarters of respondents, 76%, said<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29403\">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":[36,39,50,395,74,204,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-anglican-provinces","category-australia-nz","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29403","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=29403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}