{"id":7055,"date":"2008-09-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/09\/22\/guardian-beings-are-here-say-most-americans\/"},"modified":"2008-09-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T12:00:00","slug":"guardian-beings-are-here-say-most-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/09\/22\/guardian-beings-are-here-say-most-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardian Beings Are Here, Say Most Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1842179,00.html?xid=rss-nation\">www.time.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">WACO, TEXAS, USA, Thursday, Sep. 18, 2008:  More than half of all Americans believe they have been helped by a guardian being in the course of their lives, according to a new poll of American religious beliefs by the Baylor University Institute for Studies of Religion. Of the 1700 respondents, 55% answered affirmatively to the statement, &#8220;I was protected from harm by a guardian angel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This majority belief cut across religious, regional and educational differences, although the figure dropped to 37% among those earning over $150,000 a year. Far fewer people responded positively to statements involving other forms of supernatural intervention, such as a miraculous healing.<\/p>\n<p>The figures were &#8220;the big shocker&#8221; in the report, says Christopher Bader, director of the survey, because the question involved actual experience, not just belief. &#8220;If you ask whether people believe in guardian angels, a lot of people will say, &#8216;sure.&#8217; But this is different. It&#8217;s experiential. It means that lots of Americans are having&#8230; supernatural experiences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Parts of the Baylor study will be released in a book entitled, What Americans Really Believe.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.time.com WACO, TEXAS, USA, Thursday, Sep. 18, 2008: More than half of all Americans believe they have been helped by,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}