{"id":8528,"date":"2008-09-19T01:16:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T01:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/touched_by_an_angel_most_say_theyve_been_protected\/"},"modified":"2008-09-19T01:16:48","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T01:16:48","slug":"touched_by_an_angel_most_say_theyve_been_protected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8528","title":{"rendered":"Touched by an angel? Most say they&#39;ve been protected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey of the USA&#8217;s religious beliefs and practices finds 55% of all adults \u201d\u201d including one in five of those who say they have no religion \u201d\u201d believe they have been protected from harm by a guardian angel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would never have expected these numbers. It was the biggest surprise to me in our findings,&#8221; says sociologist Christopher Bader of Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Baylor today will release results of its second national survey on religion.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, based on interviews with nearly 1,700 adults in fall 2007, updates Baylor&#8217;s 2006 findings on religious affiliation and views of God by adding new questions on topics such as gender and politics, the environment and beliefs about evil.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2008-09-18-baylor-angel_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey of the USA&#8217;s religious beliefs and practices finds 55% of all adults \u201d\u201d including one in five of those who say they have no religion \u201d\u201d believe they have been protected from harm by a guardian angel.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8528\">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":[39,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528","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=8528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}