{"id":16192,"date":"2022-11-10T10:21:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T15:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?p=16192"},"modified":"2022-11-10T10:21:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T15:21:07","slug":"new-survey-finds-that-fewer-americans-take-their-traditional-moral-values-from-biblical-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2022\/11\/new-survey-finds-that-fewer-americans-take-their-traditional-moral-values-from-biblical-principles","title":{"rendered":"New Survey Finds That Fewer Americans Take Their Traditional Moral Values From Biblical Principles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University found that fewer people are taking their traditional moral values from biblical principles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arizonachristian.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/CRC_Americas-Values-Study_Report_04.pdf\"><em>\u201cThe America\u2019s Values Study\u201d<\/em><\/a>\u00a0found that 71 percent of American adults claim to support traditional moral values today, including integrity, justice, kindness, non-discrimination, trustworthiness, free expression, property ownership, individual growth, and self-control. However, less than half of adults who hold to those values consider biblical morality a core value.<\/p>\n<p>Another finding is that 42 percent of Americans say that \u201cwhat you feel in your heart\u201d is their absolute moral guide to life instead of the Bible. Among those who rely on their feelings are 53 percent of people with no religious affiliation who say that their emotions are the arbiter of right and wrong, 51 percent of whose core values are happiness, comfort, and equality, and half of self-identified LGBTQ adults.<\/p>\n<p>The subgroups who claim the Bible as their primary source of determining right and wrong were typically amongst those who are spiritually or politically conservative. Those prioritizing God\u2019s Word were SAGE Cons (66 percent of adults who are Spiritually Active, Governance Engaged Conservative Christians), adults who possess a biblical worldview (66 percent), people who attend an evangelical church (62 percent), Republican conservatives (58 percent) and theologically defined born-again Christians (54 percent).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14931\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14931\" style=\"width: 531px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2021\/04\/womaninchurch_unsplash.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-14931\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2021\/04\/womaninchurch_unsplash-350x262.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"398\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14931\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">unsplash.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CRC\u2019s director of research, Dr. George Barna, who authored the survey, said the findings highlight a shift in where Americans derive their source of morality. \u201cThree-quarters of Americans maintain that people are basically good, and less than half of all Americans believing in God or that the Bible is God\u2019s true, relevant and reliable words to humanity,\u201d the veteran researcher explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsequently, Americans have become comfortable with the idea of being the arbiters of morality,\u201d he added. \u201cIn the same way that most Americans contend that there is no absolute moral truth, they now believe that there is no divine guidance required or even available to define right and wrong.\u201d Barna also pointed out that people nowadays are \u201cmore likely to take their moral cues from government laws and policies than from church teachings about biblical principles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmericans have historically said that when they elect a president, they are choosing a chief executive, not a pastor-in-chief, but that distinction appears to be pass\u00e9. One could reasonably argue that the nation\u2019s ideas about right and wrong are now more likely to come from the White House and the halls of Congress than from our houses of worship,\u201d he said. \u201cThe laws of the land are replacing the laws of God in determining good and evil in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The results were taken from two national surveys commissioned by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americasone.com\/\">AmericasOne<\/a>\u00a0and was conducted on July 22, 2022. In modern times, people\u2019s values are constantly changing. Even though the survey found that fewer people got their moral values from biblical principles, it\u2019s good that people still have values in general. Let\u2019s hope that people continue to maintain their values, and one day, they might return to getting their values from biblical principles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University found that fewer people are taking their traditional moral values from biblical principles. \u201cThe America\u2019s Values Study\u201d\u00a0found that 71 percent of American adults claim to support traditional moral values today, including integrity, justice, kindness, non-discrimination, trustworthiness, free expression, property ownership, individual growth, 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