{"id":32930,"date":"2022-09-10T16:28:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/american-views-on-religious-texts-and-society\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T16:28:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:28:48","slug":"american-views-on-religious-texts-and-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/american-views-on-religious-texts-and-society\/","title":{"rendered":"American Views on Religious Texts and Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>More Americans believe the nation would be better off following the teachings of the Bible than the Koran\u2019s teachings. In a phone survey conducted by Lifeway Research, 1,000 Americans were asked their views on the Bible and the Koran. Each respondent answered whether each text is dangerous and if it would be good or harmful to American society to follow the teachings of each. While the majority of Americans do not consider the Koran dangerous or harmful, they also disagree that its teachings would be good for America to follow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highlights of the findings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>24 percent of Americans agree that the Koran is a dangerous book, while nine percent agree that the Bible is dangerous. Eighty percent agree that following the Bible would be good for American society, compared to the 28 percent that say following the Koran would be good. One in four Americans admits they are not sure if the Koran is dangerous or good.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to view the report<\/p>\n<p>View this data in the November 14, 2015, edition of WORLD magazine<\/p>\n<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-website yarpp-template-thumbnails'>\n<h3>Related posts:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"yarpp-thumbnails-horizontal\">  Most Open to Spiritual Conversations, Few Christians Speaking  22 Vital Stats for Ministry in 2022  Pandemic Altered U.S. Churchgoers\u2019 Discipleship Practices  Americans\u2019 Views of Life\u2019s Meaning and Purpose Are Changing <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Americans believe the nation would be better off following the teachings of the Bible than the Koran\u2019s teachings. In a phone survey conducted by Lifeway Research, 1,000 Americans were asked their views on the Bible and the Koran. Each respondent answered whether each text is dangerous and if it would be good or harmful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/american-views-on-religious-texts-and-society\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;American Views on Religious Texts and Society&#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-32930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32930","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=32930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}