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| How prominent is religion in your community? |
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32% |
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| A little stronger than in most places |
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10% |
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| Average - not much more, not much less than "normal" |
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20% |
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| Not much - it pops up now and then, but not often |
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16% |
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| Very little - religion is almost unimportant in my area |
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22% |
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JesusWasAnAlien
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Joined: 18 Jan 2008
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Location: South Dakota
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| hillbillyatheist wrote: | | Nimitz wrote: | 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!  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. |
sounds like my town. my town is quite literally a mini theocracy. its ran by by the southern Baptists!
I'm sure I still have the picture of the crosses somewhere but I don't know where I put it. needless to say for those of you who haven't seen it, the crosses are freakin huge! several stories in fact.
like I said in my first post on this thread, we are the buckle of the bible belt. |
Hey Hillbilly, most of my family are Southern Baptist or snake-grabbin' Pentecostals, and I was lucky my family moved to South Dakota when I was younger (so I got out of that nightmare early). I had a question for you. Do they play the creepy dracula type organ music in the Baptist churches in your area? I always found that disturbing, lol. I think Richard Pryor made fun of it in one of his routines.
Just curious. 
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hillbillyatheist
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Location: Denver Colorado.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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| JesusWasAnAlien wrote: | | hillbillyatheist wrote: | | Nimitz wrote: | 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! 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. |
sounds like my town. my town is quite literally a mini theocracy. its ran by by the southern Baptists!
I'm sure I still have the picture of the crosses somewhere but I don't know where I put it. needless to say for those of you who haven't seen it, the crosses are freakin huge! several stories in fact.
like I said in my first post on this thread, we are the buckle of the bible belt. |
Hey Hillbilly, most of my family are Southern Baptist or snake-grabbin' Pentecostals, and I was lucky my family moved to South Dakota when I was younger (so I got out of that nightmare early). I had a question for you. Do they play the creepy dracula type organ music in the Baptist churches in your area? I always found that disturbing, lol. I think Richard Pryor made fun of it in one of his routines.
Just curious. |
I don't know. I've only been to a few Baptist church mostly rural and country and they play guitars mostly and maybe a piano.
I am an ex-pentecostal, and have been to alot more of those, and more well off pentecostal churches around here used to play with a piano, guitar, bass, and drums, maybe an organ too. nowadays they play contemporary stuff, as an attempt to draw in the youth. poor and rural pentecostal churches play guitars, and maybe a piano, if they can afford one and to keep it tuned. one church I went too didn't have any instruments and it was a church with no more than 20 members. when choir was called everyone except me went up and sang with no instruments, (and no timing and all singing in different keys) for the empty pews and me. this was a church my dad pastured for a while and roped me into attending on occasion. they must have taken "make a joyful noise unto the lord" literally. |
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Rollover
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Location: Texas
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Let me put it this way...
The entire time I have attended Texas A&M, I have come across 1 other Atheist.
2 years
My entire time as an under grad, TAMUCC I knew one other atheist
4 years
My entire life, I have met
only a handfull in person
6 I think
And as far as the community goes, 50% of my friends attend church on Sunday, my girlfriend is one of these, her friends and her do keep bible versus in plain site, two of my friends have bible verse tattoos. I don't really have anything against a person for this necessarily, being born into any religion is a tough thing to overcome especially when you are not trying to do it. And some of the bible versus help them cope with life, which I can not say anything bad about or negative, inspiration is usually good in any form, as long as it is positive. I think that's a better outlet than violence or drugs. I liken them to reading a quote or something like that. I do hear people make references to god in daily activities, but I just do not comment. |
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GayAtheist
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Joined: 07 Jan 2008
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Location: Devon, England
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I'm in the South West of England. Religion is hardly anywhere. The local church where I live has not long been knocked down, which is great for me because I hate churches.
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antonivs
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Location: Reeperbahn, Hamburg
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| Rollover wrote: | | ...And as far as the community goes, 50% of my friends attend church on Sunday, my girlfriend is one of these, her friends and her do keep bible versus in plain site, two of my friends have bible verse tattoos. |
Bible verse tattoos! That is so funny. One of them should have Leviticus 19:28 tattooed on themselves:
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:28
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antonivs
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| GayAtheist wrote: | | I'm in the South West of England. Religion is hardly anywhere. The local church where I live has not long been knocked down, which is great for me because I hate churches. |
In Londonistan the churches are empty and the mosques are full.
As of 2006, Mohammed is now the second most popular name in Britain, second only to Jack.
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