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Moral Choices: New Barna Research Finds Many ...
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006 (message contributor)
Moral Choices: New Barna research finds many adults attitudes conflict with the moral positions of their faith. On abortion, 41% of all adults stated that it should be legal in all or almost all circumstances and 55% said it should not be legal under any circumstances or only in a few special circumstances. 36% contend that it is a morally acceptable behavior. 48% believe that sexual relations between consenting adults of the same gender should be legal, while only 25% say that such relations are morally acceptable. Among born again adults, 34% say that sexual relations between gay people should be legal while just 9% say that such activity is morally appropriate. Just 5% of adults believe that having an affair with a married person is morally acceptable, but 17% believe that having an affair with an unmarried person is morally viable. 58% say that co-habitation is morally acceptable and 58% state that having sexual fantasies is morally acceptable. 63% claim that divorce is not a sin. The use of profanity was deemed morally acceptable by 37%. 50% of all adults stated that watching a movie with explicit sexual behavior is morally acceptable. The results of the study caused George Barna, to remark, “Americans are correct in suggesting that the moral state of the country is in decline, but they may be looking in the wrong place to find the genesis of the problem.” 47% hold a non-biblical moral view on at least 4 of the 8 core behaviors tested, suggesting that perhaps the moral problems of the nation are not always attributable to other people but often to our own attitudes and actions. “Religious leaders and people committed to biblical standards of living will be discouraged to realize that matters are highly likely to get worse in years to come. Within the next quarter century we will likely see a state of radical moral amnesia in America. Most people do not believe that there is any source of absolute moral truth. Even born again individuals are abandoning the notion of law based on scriptural principles. Religious institutions could greatly influence people in these areas, but they’d have to substantially alter their existing strategies.” (Barna Online 9/10/01)
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