Divorce Christian Style

Recently I was searching for research on Christian giving and poverty by the Barna Research Group and stumbled across some past research Barna did on divorce several years ago that raised a firestorm of controversy. Barna concluded that the least likely group to divorce was Atheists, and the most likely group to divorce was conservative Christians from the South. Many conservative Christian groups objected loudly, but Barna stood by his findings. Due to ongoing criticism, he eventually took the information down from his website, however, it is still found numerous places including on the Religious Tolerance.org site here .

I don't have a lot of astute observation in this area, but I do find it interesting that, it would appear those that preach "family values" the loudest are more also most prone to fall prey to the No. 1 wrecker of the family unit - divorce.

Maybe we Christians should spend more time working on our marriages rather than preaching against the dangers of those things that we think might do harm to the family - like rampant pro-homosexuality literature being spread in our public schools. I would say that the fact that so many complained so loudly about the research underscores there it was most assuredly accurate.