{"id":13840,"date":"2011-11-03T02:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=13840"},"modified":"2011-10-30T23:45:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T04:45:59","slug":"the-patriotic-god-gap-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/03\/the-patriotic-god-gap-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The Patriotic God-Gap in America"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNN’s religion blog highlighted research by Christianity Today suggesting evangelical Christians may be statistically more “patriotic”<\/a> than other Americans:<\/p>\n

Among those surveyed, evangelicals were the most likely to think the United States is No. 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cOther Christian traditions were less enthusiastic about America’s position in the world, but they still saw the U.S. as one of the best on the planet. About 40% of other Christians said the U.S. stands alone as the greatest country; around 55% said it and some other countries were equally great.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Those “without religious beliefs” held a “much less favorable view” of America:<\/p>\n

“Only one in five of those without religious beliefs said the U.S. is the best country in the world, an equal percentage agreeing that ‘there are other countries that are better than the U.S.’ \u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The “God gap” may extend even to the flag:<\/p>\n

A Pew poll taken March 30-April 3 suggested that 78% of religious people display the flag on their clothing, in the office or at home, while 58% of nonreligious do likewise.<\/p>\n

Evangelicals were the most likely to say they displayed the flag; those Americans unaffiliated with religion the least likely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If there truly is a “God-gap” in patriotic feeling, what are the chances there’d be a similar “God-gap” in those who serve in the US military…?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CNN’s religion blog highlighted research by Christianity Today suggesting evangelical Christians may be statistically more “patriotic” than other Americans: Among those surveyed, evangelicals were the most likely to think the United States is No. 1. \u201cOther Christian traditions were less enthusiastic about America’s position in the world, but they still saw the U.S. as one of the best on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20,96,70,2,10],"class_list":["post-13840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-atheism","tag-christian","tag-evangelism","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}