{"id":2190,"date":"2007-03-06T17:04:37","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T23:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2012-05-15T16:39:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:39:28","slug":"does-god-matter-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/does-god-matter-in-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Does God matter in politics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The answer to that question probably has a lot to do with your political view and maybe your religious views as well. Barna has released a new study comparing Republican and Democratic views on God, religion and politics.<br \/>\nAccording to the survey:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Bible is accurate in all of the principles it teaches.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li>57% of Republicans agree<\/li>\n<li>40% of Democrats agree<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><b>Satan is a real spiritual entity.<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>33% of Republicans agree<\/li>\n<li>17% of Democrats agree<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><b>Describe themselves as absolutely committed to Christianity.<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>61% of Republicans<\/li>\n<li>48% of Democrats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><b>Have spiritual convictions that qualify them as born again Christians.<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>51% of Republicans<\/li>\n<li>38% of Democrats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><b>Good works can earn salvation.<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>35% of Republicans reject the idea<\/li>\n<li>23% of Democrats reject the idea<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><b>Attended church in the last seven days.<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>53% of Republicans<\/li>\n<li>41% of Democrats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><b>Qualify as unchurched.<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>22% of Republicans<\/li>\n<li>34% of Democrats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><b>Deem their religious faith to be important in their life.<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>77% of Republicans<\/li>\n<li>67% of Democrats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><b>Believe that God is the all-knowing, perfect creator and ruler of the universe.<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>75% of Republicans<\/li>\n<li>65% of Democrats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><b>Feel compulsion to share their faith with others.<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>34% of Republicans<\/li>\n<li>24% of Democrats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><b>Go to churches of 500+ attenders.<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>18% of Republicans<\/li>\n<li>10% of Democrats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><b>Attend Sunday school classes.<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>25% of Republicans<\/li>\n<li>17% of Democrats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><b>Participate in church-related small groups.<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>25% of Republicans<\/li>\n<li>18% of Democrats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So you tell me&#8230; why does this survey make a difference? Or does it?<\/p>\n<p>Via: <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/churchrelevance\/~3\/99488883\/\">Churchrelevance.com<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The answer to that question probably has a lot to do with your political view and maybe your religious views as well. Barna has released a new study comparing Republican and Democratic views on God, religion and politics. According to the survey: The Bible is accurate in all of the principles it teaches. 57% of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/does-god-matter-in-politics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does God matter in politics?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-zk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}