religious attitudes

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jul 12 15:08:09 PDT 2002


From: owner-aapornet at usc.edu [mailto:owner-aapornet at usc.edu]On Behalf Of dick halpern Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 10:11 PM To: aapornet at usc.edu Subject: American Religious Attitudes

Interesting study on how American religious attitudes.....

Truth Is Relative, Say Americans

In two national surveys conducted by Barna Research, one among adults and one among teenagers, people were asked if they believe that there are moral absolutes that are unchanging or that moral truth is relative to the circumstances. By a 3-to-1 margin (64% vs. 22%) adults said truth is always relative to the person and their situation. The perspective was even more lopsided among teenagers, 83% of whom said moral truth depends on the circumstances, and only 6% of whom said moral truth is absolute.

For the rest of the study see:

<http://www.barna.org/cgi-bin/PagePressRelease.asp?PressReleaseID=106&Referen ce=B>



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list