Survey:51 Percent of Americans Say the Bible Has Too Little Influence on Society





A recent survey revealed that the majority of Americans value the Bible and want to see it have a greater role in politics as well as the church.

The Illinois Family Institute reports on the results of the American Bible Society’s fifth annual State of the Bible survey.

The survey polled 2,000 Americans on questions related to the Bible, culture, the Church, and politics.

One of the rather surprising results of the survey was that 51 percent of Americans said that the Bible has too little influence on society today. Only 19 percent said that the Bible has too much influence on society.

In addition, 56 percent of survey participants said that politics would be more civil if politicians read the Bible more. Over 60 percent said that they would like to read the Bible more themselves.

The Bible also came in first as the religious text which the majority of survey participants said was sacred literature. Seventy-nine percent of participants said that the Bible was a holy text, while only 10 percent said the same of the Koran, followed by seven percent who said the Torah was a holy text, and four percent who said the same of the Book of Mormon.

The survey also found that the Midwest and the South are the regions of the country most likely to have a Bible in the households of residents. Ninety-four percent of Midwesterner reported having a Bible in the house and 92 percent of Southerners reported the same.

As far as Bible versions go, the King James Version is still the preferred translation, with 39 percent preferring it. Other versions cited were the New King James Version, the New International Version, and the English Standard Version.

Although many of the survey results were positive, some findings revealed that the Bible may be absent in some churches.

“One-quarter of adults say they never hear the Bible read aloud at a church service or Mass,” according to part of the survey summary.


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turboG:
Survey:51 Percent of Americans Say the Bible Has Too Little Influence on Society





A recent survey revealed that the majority of Americans value the Bible and want to see it have a greater role in politics as well as the church.

The Illinois Family Institute reports on the results of the American Bible Society’s fifth annual State of the Bible survey.

The survey polled 2,000 Americans on questions related to the Bible, culture, the Church, and politics.

One of the rather surprising results of the survey was that 51 percent of Americans said that the Bible has too little influence on society today. Only 19 percent said that the Bible has too much influence on society.

In addition, 56 percent of survey participants said that politics would be more civil if politicians read the Bible more. Over 60 percent said that they would like to read the Bible more themselves.

The Bible also came in first as the religious text which the majority of survey participants said was sacred literature. Seventy-nine percent of participants said that the Bible was a holy text, while only 10 percent said the same of the Koran, followed by seven percent who said the Torah was a holy text, and four percent who said the same of the Book of Mormon.

The survey also found that the Midwest and the South are the regions of the country most likely to have a Bible in the households of residents. Ninety-four percent of Midwesterner reported having a Bible in the house and 92 percent of Southerners reported the same.

As far as Bible versions go, the King James Version is still the preferred translation, with 39 percent preferring it. Other versions cited were the New King James Version, the New International Version, and the English Standard Version.

Although many of the survey results were positive, some findings revealed that the Bible may be absent in some churches.

“One-quarter of adults say they never hear the Bible read aloud at a church service or Mass,” according to part of the survey summary.


http://www.divdel.com/blogs/2016/02/survey-51-percent-of-americans-say-the-bible-has-too-little-influence-on-society/

Question should be:
1. How many of them (even Evangelicals) read their Bibles?

Who would be surprised, after all the decline of Bible influence is not natural but due to deliberate and frantic effort by Govt. etc to obliterate anything Christian from their country!

If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instruction and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.
Daniel Webster


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Scholar8200:
Question should be:
1. How many of them (even Evangelicals) read their Bibles?

Who would be surprised, after all the decline of Bible influence is not natural but due to deliberate and frantic effort by Govt. etc to obliterate anything Christian from their country!

If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instruction and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.
Daniel Webster


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You have well spoken.

turboG:
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NO WAY. JESUS IS : The Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man shall see God without Believing in HIM. Period.

TalkWithLizy:




NO WAY. JESUS IS : The Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man shall see God without Believing in HIM. Period.

But the New Age, (One World Order) is being spearheaded by America nah. If there's no decline of christianity there, where else will it be the most?

Freemasonry the tool of antichrist, is so deep into the America political system to the extend that, if they so wish, they can stamp out Christianity from the American Society so easily.
BUT
Let no man decieve you by ANY MEANS: for that day shall not come, except there COME A FALLING AWAY FIRST. and that man of sin be revealed, the SON OF PEDITION; WHO OPPOSES AND EXUALTS HIMSELF above that which is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God showing himself that he is God. (LIKE THE ATHEISTS).
Don't you remember when I told you these things while I was still with you?
AND NOW YOU KNOW WHAT IS WITHHOLDING HIM FROM BEING REVEALED UNTIL IT IS HIS APPOINTED TIME.
For the mystery of inquiry doth alreadywork; only he that letteth (hinders) will let(hinder) until he be taken away.
And then shall that WICKED be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.
2Thess 2:3-8.
So long as the Holy Spirit is still at work in this world, the Antichrist and his agents will work/walk steelthly at the back ground.

Jesus is Lord.