{"id":7444,"date":"2019-09-30T04:19:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/americans-are-most-likely-to-base-truth-on-feelings\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:19:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:19:46","slug":"americans-are-most-likely-to-base-truth-on-feelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/americans-are-most-likely-to-base-truth-on-feelings\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans Are Most Likely To Base Truth On Feelings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pontius Pilate asked the classic question, \u201cWhat is truth?\u201d  Do you know what Americans think about truth?<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 By a 3-to-1 margin (64% vs. 22%) adults said truth is always relative to a person\u2019s situation.  The perspective was even more lopsided among teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 People are most likely to make their moral and ethical decisions on the basis of whatever feels right or comfortable in a situation.  The Bible or religious teachings were primary for a small percentage of adults and teens.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 While born again Christians were statistically different from non-born again individuals, the differences were minimal; a minority of born agains believes in absolute truth; and a minority bases their moral choices on Scripture.<\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p>The Barna Update: 2\/12\/02<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pontius Pilate asked the classic question, \u201cWhat is truth?\u201d Do you know what Americans think about truth? \u00b7 By a 3-to-1 margin (64% vs. 22%) adults said truth is always relative to a person\u2019s situation. The perspective was even more lopsided among teenagers. \u00b7 People are most likely to make their moral and ethical decisions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2669,5206,2326],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}