What makes you angry?
The Barna Group poll results, summarized below, can help us to gauge what seems to be the most important moral issues to many Christians in America. Barna asked people which issues they thought was a “major problem” facing the country:
Abortion is the overwhelming choice of evangelicals as the nation’s top moral problem, according to a new survey by The Barna Group.
Among evangelicals, abortion was rated a major problem by 94 percent of respondents, followed, in order, by the personal debt of Americans (81 percent), the content of TV and movies (79 percent), homosexual activists (75 percent), homosexual lifestyles (75 percent), poverty (72 percent), immigration (72 percent) and HIV/AIDS (71 percent). Global warming finished at the bottom, with only 33 percent of evangelicals saying it is a major issue.
(Source: BP)
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These are the results based on the 10 issues Barna chose to ask about. It’s interesting that “the personal debt of Americans” was #2 on the list, even though these surveys were taken long before the market crash.
Do these results align with your own views? Which topics raise a passion for justice, a “righteous anger”, for you?
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It is amazing that abortion is rated a mjor problem–I am a christian who opposes abortion except incest and rape. We should be more angry about christian men serving God who are sleeping with young girls, molesting boys in the alter using the name of God. I get more upsets when christian leaders are not up to their moral obligations not only on sex related issue but health, racism and using God and the church to create separation among different races. That is not what God taught us. He thought us to love one another.
I get angry about pretty much the opposite things: people who want to restrict access to health care and abortions, anti-gay activists, the prudishness of American TV and movies, and the exploitative nature of corporate culture. I agree about poverty, though; it’s needless suffering. And about global warming; I think that there are other very good reasons to do all we can to increase energy efficiency and reduce emissions, but the way it’s being hyped, global warming has the characteristics of an apocalyptic religion. And I don’t think apocalyptic religion of any stripe makes for good policy.
Thinking about the last few times I got righteously steamed about something, I also don’t like prejudice, and the depersoning of groups that one doesn’t like–including, but not limited to, groups of which I am a member. As a rule, if one wouldn’t say something to the face of a member of the group one is talking about, one ought not to be saying it online.