{"id":59849,"date":"2017-05-12T16:21:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T20:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59849"},"modified":"2017-05-12T16:23:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T20:23:52","slug":"ct-bob-smietana-moral-law-americans-agree-on-more-morality-disagree-on-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59849","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Bob Smietana&#8211;Moral Law: Americans Agree on More Morality, Disagree on Method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text\">When it comes to morality, evangelicals and religious \u201cnones\u201d overwhelmingly agree on one thing: it\u2019s declining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">One factor: Too many laws regulating moral behavior have been removed, according to 7 in 10 Americans with evangelical beliefs. Yet 6 in 10 believe that such laws are not effective at encouraging people to act morally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">A new study from Nashville-based LifeWay Research finds that most Americans worry moral behavior is on the decline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">In a representative <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/lifewayresearch.com\/2017\/05\/09\/americans-worry-about-moral-decline-cant-agree-on-right-and-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survey<\/a> of 1,000 Americans, researchers found 81 percent of Americans agree with the statement, \u201cI am concerned about declining moral behavior in our nation.\u201d Nineteen percent disagree.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/gleanings\/2017\/may\/moral-law-americans-agree-more-morality-decline-lifeway.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to morality, evangelicals and religious \u201cnones\u201d overwhelmingly agree on one thing: it\u2019s declining. One factor: Too many laws regulating moral behavior have been removed, according to 7 in 10 Americans with evangelical beliefs. Yet 6 in 10<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59849\">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":[209,168,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59849","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=59849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59852,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59849\/revisions\/59852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}