{"id":70559,"date":"2018-04-25T12:26:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T16:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70559"},"modified":"2018-04-25T13:28:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T17:28:08","slug":"prc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70559","title":{"rendered":"(Pew RC) When Americans Say They Believe in God, What Do They Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"selectionShareable\">A new Pew Research Center survey of more than 4,700 U.S. adults finds that one-third of Americans say they do\u00a0<em>not<\/em>\u00a0believe in the God of the Bible, but that they do believe there is some other higher power or spiritual force in the universe. A slim majority of Americans (56%) say they believe in God \u201cas described in the Bible.\u201d And one-in-ten do not believe in any higher power or spiritual force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">In the U.S., belief in a deity is common even among the religiously unaffiliated \u2013 a group composed of those who identify themselves, religiously, as atheist, agnostic or \u201cnothing in particular,\u201d and sometimes referred to, collectively, as religious \u201cnones.\u201d Indeed, nearly three-quarters of religious \u201cnones\u201d (72%) believe in a higher power of some kind, even if not in God as described in the Bible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">The survey questions that mention the Bible do not specify any particular verses or translations, leaving that up to each respondent\u2019s understanding. But it is clear from questions elsewhere in the survey that Americans who say they believe in God \u201cas described in the Bible\u201d generally envision an all-powerful, all-knowing, loving deity who determines most or all of what happens in their\u00a0lives. By contrast, people who say they believe in a \u201chigher power or spiritual force\u201d \u2013 but\u00a0<em>not<\/em>\u00a0in God as described in the Bible \u2013 are much less likely to believe in a deity who is omnipotent, omniscient, benevolent and active in human affairs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2018\/04\/25\/when-americans-say-they-believe-in-god-what-do-they-mean\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Most U.S. Christians believe in an all-powerful, all-knowing God who loves all people, regardless of their faults: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kYIZspStAw\">https:\/\/t.co\/kYIZspStAw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TbD2HVPE3i\">pic.twitter.com\/TbD2HVPE3i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pew Research Religion (@PewReligion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PewReligion\/status\/989166446201790465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Pew Research Center survey of more than 4,700 U.S. adults finds that one-third of Americans say they do\u00a0not\u00a0believe in the God of the Bible, but that they do believe there is some other higher power or spiritual force<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70559\">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":[209,108,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-religion-culture","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70559","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=70559"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70563,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70559\/revisions\/70563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}