{"id":904,"date":"2013-09-30T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/?p=14187"},"modified":"2013-09-30T05:00:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T11:00:26","slug":"the-morning-buzz-is-religion-necessary-to-be-moral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2013\/09\/the-morning-buzz-is-religion-necessary-to-be-moral\/","title":{"rendered":"The Morning Buzz | Is Religion Necessary to be Moral?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Welcome to the Morning Buzz, PRRI\u2019s morning dose of religion-related news with a shot of data \u2013 because what doesn\u2019t liven up a morning round-up like some public opinion numbers? You\u2019ve probably seen PRRI in the news this weekend, thanks to the successful release of our new Hispanic Values Survey Friday in Austin. 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