{"id":32796,"date":"2022-09-10T16:23:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/episode-52-new-data-on-what-is-offensive-about-christmas\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T16:23:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:23:34","slug":"episode-52-new-data-on-what-is-offensive-about-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/episode-52-new-data-on-what-is-offensive-about-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 52: New Data on What is Offensive About Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6893\"> http:\/\/ministrysites.s3.amazonaws.com\/podcasts\/keepasking\/EP62_KEEPASKING.mp3<\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: Play in new window &#8211; Download<\/p>\n<p>The team discusses recent data on Americans and how they feel about Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Forty-one percent of Americans strongly agree that Christmas should be more about Jesus\n<ul>\n<li>Marked drop from 2014, when 61% of Americans strongly agreed that Christmas should be more about Jesus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt is offensive when people say \u2018X-mas\u2019 instead of \u2018Christmas\u2019.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>33% of Americans agree that it is offensive<\/li>\n<li>59% of those with evangelical beliefs agree that it is offensive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt is offensive when people say \u2018Happy Holidays\u2019 instead of \u2018Merry Christmas.\u2019\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>65% of those with evangelical beliefs agree<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Be sure to Tweet your questions and comments to us: @LifewayResearch and individually: @smcconn, @statsguycasey, and @lizettebeard. Join us next time for another edition of Keep Asking.<\/p>\n<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-website yarpp-template-thumbnails'>\n<h3>Related posts:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"yarpp-thumbnails-horizontal\">  Christmas Celebrates a Historical Event, Americans Say  Few Americans Confident They Could Tell Biblical Christmas Story  Who Are \u2018Evangelicals\u2019 and Why Knowing That Matters for Your Church  COVID-19 Bringing Christmas Changes to Many Americans <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/ministrysites.s3.amazonaws.com\/podcasts\/keepasking\/EP62_KEEPASKING.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window &#8211; Download The team discusses recent data on Americans and how they feel about Christmas. Summary: Forty-one percent of Americans strongly agree that Christmas should be more about Jesus Marked drop from 2014, when 61% of Americans strongly agreed that Christmas should be more about Jesus \u201cIt is offensive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/episode-52-new-data-on-what-is-offensive-about-christmas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Episode 52: New Data on What is Offensive About Christmas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}