An analysis of more than 350,000 interviews conducted by Gallup in 2008 finds Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas to be the most religious states in the nation. Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts are the least religious states.
I wonder how this correlates to states with lower education, higher divorce rates, and crime…
from: godless sodomite [Member]
I’ve got some advice for you: Don’t READ the trolls.
Simple, no?
Phreedunce left this unfortunate open,
“Well that settles it…let’s give all christians a Phd and we’ll wipe them out of existence…”
No, lets make them earn a Phd and they will wipe themselves out of existence.
Too, easy.
NeoWolfe
dfledermaus
Actually, I got most of my information from reading American Atheist Magazine. There have been a number of mentions down thru the years, I don’t remember exactly how many. One story I recall was how somebody counted the cars in church parking lots on a Sunday morning, and got much lower attendance figures than Gallup was giving out.
Don’t know much about them. My impression is that Pew Forum is a reputable organization.
Good idea.
….if phreekdum only had a brain.
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neowolfe
I don’t know of any scientist who has even tried to prove that. But science does not dismiss things; it just does not make claims where there is no information to back them up.
Again, no scientist has tried to prove that. Science has established beyond any reasonable doubt that the evolutionary process has produced the complexity and tenacity of life.
Thank you.
Phreedumbshit,
Refer to shrinking god thread where I proved your buddy JCC doesn’t believe in his own bible. Would you care to take me on now? He refused to answer for months, then got brave, then reaped the consequences, care to step up? Care to put your insane beliefs to the test?
What do ya think folks? Will he puss out, leaving crickets chirping? Will he cast shadows never answering the tough questions? Is he a sad sack of shit that can’t back up his beliefs with facts?
I will be watching and keeping you honest, Phreedunce.
NeoWolfe
I agree, very few religious people possess the cognitive skills to earn a PhD which is why so few people with advanced degrees identify with any particular faith. Here in Chapel Hill, NC we have the most PhDs per capita in the world and without exception those that I know who have attained this level of education, my brother included, are all agnostics or atheists regardless of their particular field of study.
NotSoFast,
I just wrote a response to your relevent post. Unfortunately Dave’s fucked up website just deleted it again. Gotta crash.
NeoWolfe
neowolfe:
You did? Where? How?
I did? Which ones? What are you talking about? My belief in the entire Bible remains in tact.
JCC, last one on this subject, you are quoted as follows:
“Refer to shrinking god thread where I proved your buddy JCC doesn’t believe in his own bible.
You did? Where? How?”
You said that Noah’s flood was local. Your bible says that Noah’s ark came to land on the top of Mount Ararat. The tallest mountain in Turkey. Your bible says that all the creatures of the earth were saved inside the ark (we’ll excuse the fish who would have died as well in such a cataclysmic change in their environment). You realize it’s a myth, and just admitted it. It’s also a myth that god immancipated the Israelites with ten plagues, it’s also a myth that with Aaron’s staff, the red sea was parted, is also a myth that Moses split a stone to provide water, it’s also a myth that manna rained from heaven.
What you would like to be a myth to forget is that Joshua, the first of the judges, executed absolute genocide upon the occupants of the “promised land”.
All I can do to help you, JCC, is to open your eyes about the lies you believe in. If you are like me, and science hasn’t convinced you that all nature is an accident, it doesn’t mean you have to fuck a virgin and worship at the temple of Athena. Common sense rests somewhere between.
NeoWolfe
What on earth (or anywhere else in the universe) does that mean? What nonsense! What a cluttered mind! Is there a scientific theory, unknown to the rest of us, that states that “nature is an accident”.
Just more of Neo’s “free thought”. Oy.
neowolfe:
No. That’s not correct. You obviously didn’t read my last reply to you in that thread: http://tinyurl.com/de8qsr
Huh?
I beg your pardon, it’s not my eyes that are in need of opening.
That’s just it; I once was, but am no longer.
Hmmmm. An “accident” of what?
P.S.
Please try to start using blockquotes…