{"id":40848,"date":"2014-01-22T08:44:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T15:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/22\/bible-thumping-divorce-rates.html"},"modified":"2014-01-22T08:44:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T15:44:42","slug":"bible-thumping-divorce-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/22\/bible-thumping-divorce-rates.html","title":{"rendered":"Bible-thumping divorce rates"},"content":{"rendered":"
It appears that areas with more conservative Protestantism (defined as Biblical literalism) have to higher divorce rates, not lower as one might expect (or as religious conservatives \u00a0might expect).<\/p>\n

The issue is not with the religious teaching about divorce per se,<\/i> but apparently other things being pushed by that cultural influence, such as pressure to wed and have kids early, abstinence-only sex education, unavailability of emergency contraception, etc., which add to a variety of marriage stresses directly and indirectly.<\/p>\n

Not only that, but this has a knock-on effect increasing the\u00a0divorce rates of others in the area, too (again, because of those cultural influences).<\/p>\n

It also seems high concentrations of secularism \/ non-religious people also correlates to more divorces — but, then, we'd expect that of those godless heathens anyway, right?\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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More religiously conservative Protestants? More divorce, study finds<\/a>
\n Religiously conservative communities have higher rates of divorce, probably because they encourage early marriage.\n <\/p>\n

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It appears that areas with more conservative Protestantism (defined as Biblical literalism) have to higher divorce rates, not lower as one might expect (or as religious conservatives \u00a0might expect). The issue is not with the religious teaching about divorce per se, but apparently other things being pushed by that cultural influence, such as pressure to … Continue reading “Bible-thumping divorce rates”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4742,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/14\/and_it_is_us.html","url_meta":{"origin":40848,"position":0},"title":"“… And it is us”","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 14-Jan-04 9:45am","format":false,"excerpt":"Some thoughts about the \"true\" enemies of marriage. 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