How prominent is religion in your community?

redraiderdude187 · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 5:53 pm Post subject:

Religion is basically EVERYWHERE where I live. In a 10 mile radius of my house (I live in a suburb, so relative to other places, that's not a lot population-wise), there are probably at LEAST 10-15 evangelical churches and one mega-church, then probably 5 catholic churches and 1 episcopalian that I know of. Almost everyone has some sort of religous message on the back of their car ie, the icthus (Jesus fish), etc. Youth group t-shirts are EVERYWHERE, and, as most of you know, I go to a Church of Christ high school. Though, through school, I know 5 Atheists/Agnostics. (Though more than one of my teachers has said "Well, you know evolution has been disproven, right?) Guy with axe

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_Frost · Visitor Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 23 Local time: 4:08 AM

'apathy' is the best description for here. most people are too busy whoring themselves on entertainment, lol. but yes, I guess you could say I live in a Christian community. but the Mormons have parked their seminaries outside a good number of high schools (one of the few reasons I have actually listenend to Richard Dawkins). I don't see much else, really, probably because I don't spend much time downtown. so you're either from a Christian upbringing, don't care, are Mormon, or think you're intelligent by experimenting with every religion and turning pantheistic because there's still some hippie in your blood Smile

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I think it's a good combination. that may sound weird, but trust me, with my liberal Christian views, I'd probably get lynched in the south or something. I guess that's the penalty for serious scholarship, at least put up against fundemental armies. we had some of that down in colorado springs, but here in Denver...naw. there's a healthy balance of things up here.
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EvolutionAtWork · Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:35 pm Post subject:

I hardly even have a community, let alone a religious one. People may be Christian, etc but you would never know it.

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There are 25+ churches within 1 mile of my front door. (the better half and I went on a church counting cruise last summer) The downtown area of the suburb town I live in is just one huge Nazerene college. The "nazi-renes" own this burg. The place reeks! Laughing

You can't buy a playboy magazine in this town. It was only in the last few years a liquor store opened here. Every strip plaza has a store front church. Every block it seems has one or more. Residential neighborhoods are dotted with churches. Oklahoma City is just a mile or so away and it's not much better there. (you can buy playboy there) Every xmas season several buildings in downtown OKC put huge crosses in lights on their sides.
(HBA posted a picture of them last year. Maybe he still has it)

I pass dozens of churches on the way to work and a couple are mega churches. You could land a small plane in their parking lots.
Along the highway there's a huge Roman execution device (cross) that can be seen from space! It's over a hundred feet high and bathed in floodlights. The local paper is fundy owned. It won't even publish the Doonsbury comic strip. The movie "Last Temtation of Christ" wasn't show in the STATE! Most video stores wouldn't handle it either. They serve 3.2 beer in bars/grocery/convenient stores and blue laws are still here. (liquor stores and car lots are closed on sunday) You can buy wine and liquor in liquor stores only. Some counties here are still dry. Rant rant rant.

caseagainstfaith · Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:58 am Post subject:

I live in Houston, about a mile or two away from Stafford, Texas. I've heard (not certain) but I've heard that Stafford has the highest number of churches per capita of any city in the country.
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Gettin' In Tune · Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:38 am Post subject:

I moved to Albuquerque about 4 months ago. I live a few blocks from an Islamic Mosque. Every time I walk by there is always activity, but they keep to themselves. I have seen two people wear Jesus T-shirts and one out-of-state car riddled with religious propaganda.

My roommates moved here 14 years ago from New England (where I am from). They are non-practicing Catholics who are receptive to my atheism. My classmates, who are from all over the place, are tolerant and not overly religious, except for a couple. I am still thinking about busting out my atheism to an older female classmate who believes that jesus changes lives and donates 10% percent of her income to the church. She is so annoying that I minimize my interactions with her.

Overall, it is not in your face. Supposedly, Albuquerque has a high Buddhist population, but I have yet to meet a Buddhist. UNM is pretty quite. There are some religious houses, and supposedly some religious freaks come out during the Spring semester. I have yet to see a propagandizing religious freak.

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Siderius · Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 6:10 am Post subject:

I choose Very Little, but in actuality it means nothing at all.
I felt I was missing a choise.

My community is a small town on the west coast of norway.

Citizen X · Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:01 am Post subject:

The Church of God is the driving force here (this is where they are headquartered). There is nearly a church on every block, all of which weekly post religious "innuendos" on their signs for all to see. I work in the government center, which happens to have a manger scene set up in most every office. Every local politician, with the exception of 2, that I personally know, are die hard christians. Jesus is part of every day life for the large majority around here. As soon as my son graduates high school, I am out of here (for other reasons, as well).
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GoldenJoe · Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject:

if its not football everyone in my town is praising god. i go to a public school but the way everyone acts it might as well be church thats exctually educational. I get to sit at the atheist table.....in the closet....where nobody sees me

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bigshow · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:46 am Post subject:

I live in a bg town in east texas and It is a very church ran town. There are 30+ churches, most baptist, around but one big one which everyone knows onl as six flags over jesus. The major hospital here is a catholic one and will not they are very strict wit their beliefs and business crossing one another.
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LutherGooch · Visitor Joined: 21 Dec 2007 Posts: 5 Local time: 4:08 AM

People will look at you crazy if they know you are an atheist here and you may not be able to get a teachers position. They do not want the immoral to teach their kids, because you know an atheist has no morals...sigh.

jesuschrshit · Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:56 am Post subject:

Atlanta, hah! Are you kidding? A mega church on every corner, Jaysus fish stuck to every SUV, the governor doing a prayer for rain on the capitol (a state building), fast-food chains that have religion written into their by laws, about 5 TV stations with those televangelist thieves scamming people out of money, radio stations on Sunday morning turn to "quiet music," you can't buy or order an alcoholic beverage at a restaurant on Sundays or within so many feet of a church, the shit being shoved down your throat everywhere you go...Sheesh...I don't even think that the Vatican is that bad...

Sal1981 · Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:35 pm Post subject:

They're concentrated into a few churches and ministries, but otherwise it's pretty average.
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