This is the most cited, and yet the most false statistic out there. Our news team has learned that it is further from the truth. How? Because all of the pseudo studies on the matter were taken from ‘cultural’ Christians, not ‘devout’ ones who are committed. In short, a cultural Christian is someone who has accepted Jesus as the Christ, and nothing more. They don’t live for God.

The factor making the most difference is religious commitment and practice. Couples who regularly practice any combination of serious religious behaviors and attitudes -- attend church nearly every week, read their Bibles and spiritual materials regularly; pray privately and together; generally take their faith seriously, living not as perfect disciples, but serious disciples -- enjoy significantly lower divorce rates than mere church members, the general public and unbelievers.

           Professor Bradley Wright, a sociologist at the University of Connecticut, explains from his analysis of people who identify as Christians but rarely attend church, that 60 percent of these have been divorced. Of those who attend church regularly, 38 percent have been divorced.

            Other data from additional sociologists of family and religion suggest a significant marital stability divide between those who take their faith seriously and those who do not.

        W. Bradford Wilcox, a leading sociologist at the University of Virginia and director of the National Marriage Project, finds from his own analysis that "active conservative Protestants" who regularly attend church are 35 percent less likely to divorce compared to those who have no affiliation. Nominally attending conservative Protestants are 20 percent more likely to divorce, compared to secular Americans 
           

 Professor Scott Stanley from the University of Denver, working with an absolute all-star team of leading sociologists on the Oklahoma Marriage Study, explains that couples with a vibrant religious faith had more and higher levels of the qualities couples need to avoid divorce:

            

              So what can we take from this?

                      Lesson: You can’t straddle the fence.

           This goes for individuals, but all of the evidence points to the fact that it goes for couples as well. If you name the name of Christ, but aren’t devout, your marriage will suffer. The bible says, “Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil roams about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour” [1 Peter 5:8]. When couples are drunken by satan and his influences in the world, rest assured, they too will fall victim to the same tragedies that none Christians fall to.

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