{"id":26434,"date":"2026-03-20T15:35:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=26434"},"modified":"2026-03-20T15:35:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:35:24","slug":"68-of-americans-say-you-dont-need-god-to-be-good-a-biblical-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/68-of-americans-say-you-dont-need-god-to-be-good-a-biblical-response\/","title":{"rendered":"68% Of Americans Say You Don\u2019t Need God To Be Good \u2014 A Biblical Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The results of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2026\/03\/05\/in-the-us-and-other-countries-fewer-people-now-say-its-necessary-to-believe-in-god-to-be-moral\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent Pew Research study<\/a>\u00a0probably won\u2019t surprise you. Apparently, 68% of Americans don\u2019t believe that a belief in God is necessary \u201cto be moral and have good values.\u201d Well, 68% of Americans are both right and wrong at the same time!<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re right in the sense that, yes, people can act \u201cmorally\u201d and hold to good values without believing in God.\u00a0Two reasons for that come to mind.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/harbingersdaily.com\/68-of-americans-say-you-dont-need-god-to-be-good-a-biblical-response\/\">harbingersdaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results of a\u00a0recent Pew Research study\u00a0probably won\u2019t surprise you. Apparently, 68% of Americans don\u2019t believe that a belief in God is necessary \u201cto be moral and have good values.\u201d Well, 68% of Americans are both right and wrong at the same time! They\u2019re right in the sense that, yes, people can act \u201cmorally\u201d and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/68-of-americans-say-you-dont-need-god-to-be-good-a-biblical-response\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">68% Of Americans Say You Don\u2019t Need God To Be Good \u2014 A Biblical Response<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6Sm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26435,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26434\/revisions\/26435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}