Southerners are Religious -- how many go to church?

[Macrobius]

http://whigger.weremight.com/whigger/story.php?title=southerners-are-religious-but-how-many-actually-go-to-church



What makes someone religious: How important faith is in their lives, or how often they actually attend services?

According to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, there's a big difference between the two, even in Bible Belt states in the South.

Last month, Pew ranked all 50 states by their "religiousness," using four different measures (importance of religion to those being surveyed, worship attendance, frequency of prayer and belief in God).

Unsurprisingly, Southern states ranked high. In all 13* Southern states the Institute and Facing South follow, the people surveyed scored above the national average in each category.

But by using four different lenses on what it means to be "religious," the survey revealed some interesting discrepancies.

For example: The difference between the percentage of people who say "religion is very important in their lives" and those who "attend religious services at least once a week."

By my calculations, there's roughly a 20-point difference between the two in South. I compiled a map that breaks it down by state:
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http://www.southernstudies.org/assets_c/2010/01/Southern%20Religion%20Graf%20Jan10-thumb-350x418.jpg

Rest at link. Nice to see SC (after MS) tops the the chart at 'putting your feet where your mouth is'.

yeah, this whole rant is from the ultra-liberal southernstudies.org

[Petr]

Fade the Butcher, an irreligious WN Southerner, opined:


The pseudo-Christians are far more numerous than atheists/agnostics, mainline Protestants, or Evangelicals. If you ask them about Jesus, they will give you the usual spiel about how he is the Son of God, but otherwise they know little about their own religion.

These people don’t go to church. There isn’t the slightest trace of Christianity in their lives. They get their morals from movies and television.
http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2010/01/04/aggregate-correctness/#comment-31100


Petr

[Frank]

To be fair, SC and Miss both have a lot of blacks, and they ALL go to church.

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How many more would attend if churches were more interested in helping whites? They don't even stay in the country - people fly out to the third world to seek out needy, whom they know nothing about.

[roho]

Sign Up for a nice Wednsday night bible study for just men, that openly declares that "Like Vegas, What is said here stays here"!

You will be amazed at the reasons some are in Church Attendance?;)

[amundsen]

Most churches are corrupted with liberal and corrupt theology. That being the case, I'm not sure it is a good thing if so many people attend regularly.

[Happy Hacker]

Most churches are corrupted with liberal and corrupt theology. That being the case, I'm not sure it is a good thing if so many people attend regularly.

But, people who don't attend tend to be more corrupt yet.