[SeekAndFind]

[Ken522]

Boulder CO is next to last on this list - I could believe that!

[ardara]

There seems to be a correlation between low religiosity and liberalism.

[MachIV]

I’m a bit surprised Nashville didn’t rank up there.

[LouAvul]

I'm guessing the "religion" is mormonism which is hardly something to be proud of. Doctrine of blood atonement. Polygamy. Temple ceremonies.

Most people know nothing about this religion.

[Utah Binger]

Now isn’t that speshul? Looks like my hometown Ogden, Utah is also on that list. Now I realize why I left.

[stuartcr]

But isn’t Provo full of them cultists??

[Graybeard58]

Interesting, Jackson, Mississippi made the list with 64% being "very religious". How does this jibe with an internal document from W-M that I was privy to, that showed that a W-M store in Jackson led the list of all W-M stores in the United States for "shrinkage", a combination of employee theft and shop lifting?

[Colofornian]

Some SPECIFIC religious categorization is quite helpful.

But when it comes to generic "religiosity," then all you have to do is go to some "world religion adherent" Web site that might break down % of adherents by country...click on a given country like Afghanistan (99.7% Muslim) or Saudi Arabia ... or even a small European country like Kosovo (89..6% Muslim)...and you'll see that attempting to match up "religiosity" %s to devotion to the one TRUE God is a relatively meaningless exercise.

[Colofornian]

Provo is SO “religious” that circa late 80s or early 90s, a female BYU student asked to remove her name from LDS church membership lists (she wasn’t the first BYU student to do that), but she was the first BYU student to be expelled for such a request.

[Colofornian]

Provo-Orem

Provo is "so religious" that 31 years ago this month, Lds "apostle" Bruce R. McConkie was speaking to BYU students at Provo on the subject of: Our Relationship With the Lord

Under a sub-topic section entitled, "Heresies Among Us, McConkie spouted:

In an effort to be truer than true they devote themselves to gaining a special, personal relationship with Christ that is both improper and perilous. I say perilous because this course, particularly in the lives of some who are spiritually immature, is a gospel hobby which creates an unwholesome holier-than-thou attitude. In other instances it leads to despondency because the seeker after perfection knows he is not living the way he supposes he should. Another peril is that those so involved often begin to pray directly to Christ because of some special friendship they feel has been developed. In this connection a current and unwise book, which advocates gaining a special relationship with Jesus, contains this sentence: Because the Savior is our mediator, our prayers go through Christ to the Father, and the Father answers our prayers through his Son. This is plain sectarian nonsense.

Wow!

How "fitting" on this Easter weekend to "wow" with wonderment a belittling by the Provo-based cultists regarding those who seek a "special relationship with Jesus" and who commit the supposed "error" of praying to Jesus...

(I guess Mormons should take some scissors out and cut out those portions of their "scriptures" where Jesus is prayed to DIRECTLY ... Acts 7:58; 3 Nephi 19 in the Book of Mormon...)

[pithyinme]

I live in the Portland Maine metro area. Our evangellical church has grown from 650 active attendees to over 900 in three months, and ours isn’t the largest in the area. I see signs that the Lord is working here. I challenge you all to please pray specifically for the lost in the Portland ME area... Thank you and God bless!