Good Friday Feature: US Religion Density Maps

[XNASA]

http://robotwisdom.com/issues/religmaps.html

Enjoy you heathens.

[Magrittes Pipe]

1. Hm....

The "Deep South" is less "religious" than one might have "thought."

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4. Even then, the counties that are 'red' in Louisiana for example...

(I guess that makes them 'parishes' and not 'counties') are from Catholics, not Baptists.....

While heavily populated Massachusettes is nearly all red, again, from the Catholic population.

I was also suprised to see that Long Island has over 50% participation.

[acmejack]

2. Cool graphic, thanx!

no wonder I liked Seattle so much...

[paparush]

3. Looks like I should move to Oregon...

[gratuitous]

10. Yeah, we try not to be dense about religion

Which isn't to say that there aren't a lot of church-going people; we just try not to be obnoxious about it.

[rpannier]

5. Didn't shill o'lielly state that Ohio is a good solid middle class value

state?
Seems a lot of that state is full of religious non-adherents.

[XNASA]

6. Yes! While liberal Massachusettes has over 50% adherence.

Go figure.

[SoulGlo]

7. I really need

to get out of west texas. There are scary fundies here.

[stop the bleeding]

8. awesome - I am in a county in Florida with less than 35%

:toast:

but I am still surrounded by "W" assholes

[papau]

9. interesting - so 44% of the religious are not part of a formal church !

It is also interesting that more than half the population is formally a dues paying member of one of the 149 religious bodies participating in the study.

[seabeyond]

12. lol lol i didnt read, just looked at map. so saying lots of manipulation

in truth in htis thing. good to know. maybe some of the kids in sons class was fibbin. (i posted below you)

[Selteri]

15. I'm personally spritual without being religious.

I get a lot of judgement passed in front of me when I personally believe that you need to be cautious with your Judgement. I also don't believe that you can tell someone what to do with their beliefs, even if they are stuck 2000 years in the past with how they have locked thier viewpoints on the past and the way things were instead of how they are. They are claiming persecution when 80% of the country is claiming to be Christian. It makes as much sense as blaming the democrats for anything in the past 5 years, it's like a bully crying because the other children won't play with them.

If you were to poll people, you'll find more people who are homosexual than who claim they do not believe in some sort of higher power or higher-form to this world. The truth is that this is a well thought out tactic, People who are lead to believe that thier morality and ways are under attack band together and join a mob mentality, eventually taking on other aspects they would normally think to be Morally wrong in the name of being a part of a group they have begun to identify their self as being a part of.

These people desperately seek to have reocgnition of who they are, willingly morphing themselves to be a part of the group so they can gain praise and recognition from the group. We are all like that to some level, the balancing act of Humanity is to find the personal boarder between the personally defined self by aspects they see in others that they reflect in themselves and that which is who they are at the core. They seek answers to the questions that every single one of us has by thinking of ourselves. There is nobody who doesn't question who they are and what is their identity. The choice to identify with a religious figure is not uncommon, before Jesus was Moses and Buddah, and many others before them. The dangerous step is that line when one passes from being religious to being cultish.

These Fundamentalists, these radicals of the right are not bemoaning their Religion being under attack, they are crying because their sub-cult is under attack. They intentionally blur the lines as much as possible so that they can retain their power in the cult of personality. These people are not Christians, these people are the Pharasies they attack in their Sermons. They have become that which they proclaim to be the enemy of.

Real Christians, Real Muslims, Real Jews, Real Spritualists - I charge you - Change the argument, use thier own weapon against them. If they want to use Jesus ask how what they are doing supercedes his first or second laws from God. Remind them that Jesus called the Pharasies Lawyers who focused on the Law and not on the Spirit. When hese people attack you, state simply that your Religious choice is not what is under Attack but their hypocritical anti-christian actions.

[seabeyond]

11. sheeeit.... maybe sons classmates werent fibbin when he told me

he was the only one that didnt go to church, lol lol. i am in hte reddest of red panhandle of texas. told son no way all these kids go to church. well,.... maybe they do. they are the ones after all that say who is going to hell, and because my son wont condemn anyone they say he doesnt have god in his heart

this calif girl is just in astonishment that i settle here. wow. what are the odds

[Squeech]

13. Hmmm...

I'm struck by all those "irreligious" parts of the American southwest populated by first nations.

Could it be that the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies has an Abrahamist bias?

Naaah... :shrug:

[mainegreen]

14. The baptist map is crazy.

Whistling Dixie