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- MiltonWaddams, on 01/18/2008, -11/+360I don't get the light yellow for Christian. Aren't all of these Christian denominations?
- Jsmuli2, on 01/18/2008, -65/+298dugg down, the title (which is misleading) should be "map of leading church bodies in 2000"
- spyrochaete, on 01/18/2008, -11/+234Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.
- xb00t, on 01/18/2008, -14/+228Where are all the Scientologists?
- inactive, on 01/18/2008, -7/+192They're busy getting ready to sue whoever made this map
- meshman, on 01/18/2008, -15/+197"What, no atheists?"
Being an atheist isn't a religion. - TalkingBanana, on 01/18/2008, -14/+185Jews?
- sensor, on 01/18/2008, -9/+137It's not a religion... it's a cult.
- brentinkc, on 01/18/2008, -6/+115There are non-denominational Christian churches. Some people just think Jesus is rad and don't get all wrapped up in the different fairy tales.
- Zera, on 01/18/2008, -20/+11999% of people are their religion "by default" as almost no one chooses their own religion. Most people are born into it and are that religion "by default"
- newman1320, on 01/18/2008, -29/+118This is a very interesting map. It's amazing to see how many Baptists are in the south and how many Catholics are all over the US. I think most people are Catholic though by default however.
- PropCulture, on 01/18/2008, -7/+94Atheism is a religion like bald is a hairdo.
- GiantJacob, on 01/18/2008, -25/+107Where are us Jews? if this map were accurate there would be a giant nose, or a bagel, or something over New York and Hollywood to show the massive concentration of "Shalomie Homies"
- Eivo, on 01/18/2008, -10/+75"8 year old map of Christian denominations in the U.S. [pic]"
-Fixed - spyrochaete, on 01/18/2008, -3/+60The map is entitled "Leading Church Bodies, 2000". Have you ever seen a church of atheism?
- WakasakiRocky, on 01/18/2008, -16/+72It looks amazing like this 1861 map of showing the mason-dixon line: http://www.sonofthesouth.net/slavery/slave-maps/ma ...
- skydharma, on 01/18/2008, -0/+52My guess is that those counties are dominated by local, small congregations not really affiliated with a major church. I noticed that a few counties in eastern North Carolina are Yellow, where you see a lot of "First Church of Our Lord Jesus" or things like that, which don't have any specific affiliation, but are clearly Christian in basic beliefs and teaching.
I could be wrong on that, but that's what I assumed. - skydharma, on 01/18/2008, -0/+52More people are Protestant than Catholic in the US; however, more people are Catholic than they are of any one denomination of Protestantism (e.g. Presbyterian, Baptist, etc.). Also, I'd expect that most of the counties that are blue on the map have significant minorities of Protestants, whereas the red counties have relatively few Catholics.
- Navicerts, on 01/18/2008, -28/+70What, no atheists?
It's a map of religion's, atheists are not part of a religion. - SteveCUBE, on 01/18/2008, -1/+39Why are you digging him down? He's right. Here's the source with all the different religion maps: http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/geo/courses/geo200/rel ...
This is just Christian church bodies... doesn't include other religions - SRSco, on 01/18/2008, -2/+39You can find a map of percentage of Jewish population in the US here:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c ... - Puttzy, on 01/18/2008, -6/+40WOW!! You're right! It does look like that map. I see some of the same states
- MattnJax, on 01/18/2008, -24/+56Why do I have to live in the RED part? Argghhh..
- KraftDinner101, on 01/18/2008, -10/+39Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, RAmen.
- ApokalypseNow, on 01/18/2008, -2/+29Well, with atheism not being a religion, and thus lacking any sort of church, temple, holy books, weekly rituals, or other trappings of religion, there's no reason it *should* be on this map.
- drakenlot, on 01/18/2008, -3/+30That's not atheism buddy.
TSM is god, in all his spindly deliciousness. - Puttzy, on 01/18/2008, -10/+34Because moving away scares you?
- inactive, on 01/18/2008, -32/+55that's a lot of sheep
- tacroy, on 01/18/2008, -7/+30Reading the map text. It looks like this is NOT a religion map, but only reporting christian churches attendees. That explains the lack of atheists, etc.
- skyshock1, on 01/18/2008, -0/+22Hollywood
- inactive, on 01/18/2008, -5/+26Brain power? Try studying 3rd grade grammar. You need to catch up on brain power, you couldn't even start the sentence without an error.
- g30ph, on 01/18/2008, -15/+35100% of all people are born atheist. You don't pop out already believing in nonsense. You are born with survival instincts, and then your parents ruin you by teaching you to rely on the invisible man when things don't work out.
- Zera, on 01/18/2008, -0/+20Each county's color is merely the majority in that county. With that said, look at the county's with Dots on them, the dots indicate more than 50% of that particular religion, and there are relatively few. That means most areas in the US are diverse religion wise, (at least when it comes to these denominations)
- tman84, on 01/18/2008, -2/+22Jews only make up 2% of the population, but I don't believe they make up 2% of the media and entertainment population. I'd be interested to see those numbers out of curiosity.
- way2muchsense, on 01/18/2008, -1/+21You have Catholics, and you have dozens of different flavors of Protestants that split the remainder. Thus, a plurality (but not a majority) of Americans are Catholic, and no single Protestant denomination comes close except in certain regions.
- iPissExcellence, on 01/18/2008, -6/+24I'M GONNA SUE YOU!!!
- spyrochaete, on 01/18/2008, -6/+24@brstilson
Atheist means "no god". You can still follow a religion without a god. Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism are atheist religions because they don't acknowledge a creator god. - BarbaraKolbe, on 01/18/2008, -3/+20Original source and more understanding about map from here: http://www.glenmary.org/grc/default.htm Glenmary Research offers many maps about religious activity in the US. This is one of many. Peace.
- Oomsoup, on 01/18/2008, -1/+18Yeah, I live in South Florida and that's a glaring omission.
- Jektal, on 01/18/2008, -3/+20Hiding in the closet.
- raitchison, on 01/18/2008, -4/+21No by that logic everyone would be Agnostic by default, with no knowledge or belief of any religion. In order to be Athiest you have to be aware of the concept of God or other "higher power" and reject that as impossible.
- drumpat01, on 01/18/2008, -8/+25Buried for Inaccurately titled. These are all Christian denominations, not religions. Christianity is the religion. Things like Baptist, catholic, reformed, mormon, these are all just different denominations of the same religion. Its like calling Sunni's and Shi'ites different religions.
- brstilson, on 01/18/2008, -9/+26Theism = Religion
Atheism = without religion - insllvn, on 01/18/2008, -3/+19The ONLY difference is the age of the belief system. If it lasts 1000 years, no one will deny that Scientology is a religion, just like the Romans called Christians a Jewish cult 2000 years ago, and the Christians called the Muslims 1400 years ago. A significantly influential cult that lasts for a millennium or so becomes a religion.
- themanipulator, on 01/18/2008, -4/+20Honestly, not all that surprising... although I had no idea how many latter-day saints there were in utah and the surrounding states
- BohicaTwentyTwo, on 01/18/2008, -5/+21The counties with black dots are the ones where the religon is more than 50%. Not too many of those. In fact most of them seem to be out in the boonies.
- Swarms, on 01/18/2008, -0/+16http://www.glenmary.org/grc/RCMS_2000/maps/Muslims ... - Muslim map
http://www.glenmary.org/grc/RCMS_2000/maps/Jewish. ... - Jewish map
http://www.glenmary.org/grc/RCMS_2000/maps/Catholi ... - Catholic map
http://www.glenmary.org/grc/RCMS_2000/maps.htm - Other fancy stuff - Hanniballo, on 01/18/2008, -0/+16can't find it but my guess is Vegas
- JQP123, on 01/18/2008, -6/+21@JoshChris
I'm an atheist and I'm not sure where the universe came from exactly. Anyone who says they know for sure where the universe came from is either a fool, a liar or both. But I do believe with my whole heart that the universe did *not* come from a powerful but petty and uptight old man who lives on the other side of the firmament. - tman84, on 01/18/2008, -2/+17Strange how many Catholics there are in the country, yet only 1 Catholic has been elected President
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