Posted on 01/13/2010 7:23:00 AM PST by Colofornian
Utah, where most surveys show just more than two-thirds of the residents are Latter-day Saints, is the 12th most religious state in the United States. Utah takes a back seat to 11 Southern states, most in the Bible Belt.
According to a new analysis released by the Pew Forum for Religion and Public Life, the most religious states are Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Georgia and Kentucky. The rankings were based on a question about how important religion was in people's lives taken during a 2007 Religious Landscape Survey. States where religion is least important are New Hampshire, Vermont, Alaska and Massachusetts. Not surprising, Northeastern states had some of the lowest measures in four categories of religious commitment.
Utah did rank much higher in worship attendance -- about 56 percent of Utahns surveyed said they attend church at least once a week. Only Mississippi had a higher percentage of people who attend church at least once a week, at 60 percent. In terms of frequency of prayer and belief in God, Utah ranked 10th in both categories.
Caution should be used in trying to use the data to classify Mormons -- Utah does have members of other faiths. Most significant in what demographers have reported is Utah's Catholic population, which is about 5-6 percent of the Beehive State's population.
Nonetheless, the numbers are interesting.
Nationally, on average, about 56 percent of Americans rated religion important in their lives. About 39 percent attend religious services once a week, about 58 percent have frequent prayer and 71 percent have a belief in God.
(Excerpt) Read more at mormontimes.com ...
Utah sends its Mormon missionaries to proselytize others from the Christian church; will the Evangelicals attempt to reach out to the homes where these potential proseletyzers are coming from?
Utah is second only to Wyoming in charitable giving .
What is stopping you ?
(Actually I'm working on it...thank you for asking)
Utah, where most surveys show just more than two-thirds of the residents are Latter-day Saints, is the 12th most religious state in the United States. Utah takes a back seat to 11 Southern states, most in the Bible Belt.
——— the most religious states are Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Georgia and Kentucky.
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ROFLMBO
When 56% of its population is told:
(1) "You won't receive temple access unless you tithe
-- which we check by a periodic 'temple recommend' interview with the bishop";
(2) "...and unless you are a temple Mormon, you won't go to the highest realm of glory -- the celestial glory";
(3) "...and if you don't go to celestial glory, you're putting in jeopardy living forever in the proximity of your immediate family to whom we seal you in our temples"...
...then, of course...charitable giving to the Lds church seems to flow quite readily!!!
Now what if those Christian churches in those 11 Southern states mentioned in this article said: "You won't go to heaven unless you tithe." (Then it'd be way up there, too)
You are rolling on the floor laughing your butt off over stuff like this? WOW, girl needs get out more.
Since when is Louisiana a part of the Bible Belt?
I grant you the northern part of the state is but not anything in the southern part of the state (where most people are)
And I’ll already tell you you’ll never break the Mormon church in Utah. You have to be Mormon in most of the state to even be viable, except for Salt Lake City, and the non-Mormons in Salt Lake City tend to be very liberal because they go out of their way to be the “non-Mormon” and as such try and be the polar opposite of whatever Mormons are on any given issue.
And I suspect that the youth who are leaving the Mormon church are leaving because of it’s social restrictions such as those on alcohol and tobacco and I’d imagine they also intend to leave the state. I don’t know how that makes them ripe coverts for the SBC but then again I’m Catholic.
Welcome to FR n00b...
You’re new so I will cut you some slack...
Stick around kid...
Read some of the 1000s of comments ...
The point here is its laughable...
Based on the history of the past posts about mormons and their (better than anyone else) devotion level to their religion ???
ROFLMBO...
...and last in percentage of veterans in the total population I was shocked to find out. I think that may have to do with the younger average age though.
Just a thought. Mormon’s are a Christian church too. Granted a church that contains many ideals that are heretical and have long been heretical but they still are a Christian church.
I am not a huge fan of Mormonism and I can’t say I’d be comfortable with having one in the White House but you have to be careful with how far you take that. A good number of our Republican primary voters did not like McCain last year. Those who opted not for him had a remarkable characteristic.
Catholics, Episcopalians and Mainline Protestants and Jews (Catholics especially) opted for Romney over Huckabee and as a result this became one of the only two high vote counties in the state where Romney outran Huckabee.
Their reasoning was simple. Huckabee was a Southern Baptist preacher and they believed his campaign had used Romney’s non-Evangelical religion to attack him and down here, we’re sensitive to that. So I understand where you Evangelicals are coming from, but I also have the experience of a Southern Catholic in a Catholic dominated town in a Southern Baptist dominated state. Be careful because there’s always a backlash that can be provoked.
Not really, because most of those folks are not brainwashed robots. They have the authority of God's Word, the Holy Bible, in their hands and hearts and they know what is true.
CC has been an integral part of a “former mormon” Christian
Church that is growing rapidly. The fields are white for
harvest!
ping-a-ling
Listen, no "Christian church" I know teaches you that you are a "god-in-embyro" (google the term & you'll see the Lds leader references) & that you can be a god of your own star/planet. Likewise, no "Christian church" I know teaches that multiple gods exist and that you yourself can add to that total by becoming one.
If polytheism = "Christian" then "Christian" means nothing.
A good number of our Republican primary voters did not like McCain last year. Those who opted not for him had a remarkable characteristic. Catholics, Episcopalians and Mainline Protestants and Jews (Catholics especially) opted for Romney over Huckabee and as a result this became one of the only two high vote counties in the state where Romney outran Huckabee.
Well, maybe you've seen some voting results sliced & diced that I've haven't seen -- re: how Catholics, Episcopalians and Mainline Protestants actually voted in the last primaries.
But I can tell you from one Gallup poll going into those primaries that when three groups were polled (self-identified conservatives, moderates & liberals) about whether they would vote for a Mormon POTUS or not...
...Moderates were 11% LESS likely than Conservatives to vote for a Mormon POTUS...
...and Liberals were 9% LESS likely than Conservatives to vote for a Mormon POTUS.
Now, certainly, these numbers change over time (for example, liberals may be even LESS likely than the above to vote for a Mormon POTUS since Prop 8 passage). But as it applies to your comment, it was actually the moderates in the GOP who drove the vote for McCain because the "11% less" number above drove many away from Romney. And where do you think the moderates reside a few Sunday mornings a month? (Mainline Protestantism; Episcopalians, and Catholics)
Now I'm not saying those moderates were Huckabee-happy. (Obviously they weren't). But you see, the moderates united in their vote behind McCain, whereas the more conservative voters split their vote behind Huckabee, Romney, Thompson, Ron Paul & earlier in the race the others who were still in it for a brief time.
Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
The Bible already teaches that you are cursed if you don't pay up.
Oh I’m not saying don’t give. But when, where, to whom, and how much is between you and God.
And I don’t see anywhere where it says, “do this or you won’t go to heaven”
Here, this should help clear it up. It’s from www.gotquestions.org :
Question: “What does the Bible say about Christian tithing?”
Answer: Many Christians struggle with the issue of tithing. In some churches tithing is over-emphasized. At the same time, many Christians refuse to submit to the biblical exhortations about making offerings to the Lord. Tithing/giving is intended to be a joy and a blessing. Sadly, that is sometimes not the case in the church today.
Tithing is an Old Testament concept. The tithe was a requirement of the law in which all Israelites were to give 10 percent of everything they earned and grew to the Tabernacle/Temple (Leviticus 27:30; Numbers 18:26; Deuteronomy 14:24; 2 Chronicles 31:5). In fact, the Old Testament Law required multiple tithes which would have pushed the total to around 23.3 percent, not the 10 percent which is generally considered the tithe amount today. Some understand the Old Testament tithe as a method of taxation to provide for the needs of the priests and Levites in the sacrificial system. The New Testament nowhere commands, or even recommends, that Christians submit to a legalistic tithe system. Paul states that believers should set aside a portion of their income in order to support the church (1 Corinthians 16:1-2).
The New Testament nowhere designates a percentage of income a person should set aside, but only says it is to be “in keeping with income” (1 Corinthians 16:2). Some in the Christian church have taken the 10 percent figure from the Old Testament tithe and applied it as a “recommended minimum” for Christians in their giving. The New Testament talks about the importance and benefits of giving. We are to give as we are able. Sometimes that means giving more than 10 percent; sometimes that may mean giving less. It all depends on the ability of the Christian and the needs of the church. Every Christian should diligently pray and seek God’s wisdom in the matter of participating in tithing and/or how much to give (James 1:5). Above all, all tithes and offerings should be given with pure motives and an attitude of worship to God and service to the body of Christ. “Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver” (2 Corinthians 9:7).
You can't believe how the Christian Church is taking roots and exploding in growth here in Salt Lake City, UT.
The congregation I attend will be five years old in February. We have outgrown our present location in a warehouse and have begun taking donation to procure a building where we can house our 300 members.
You can't believe how the Christian Church is taking roots and exploding in growth here in Salt Lake City, UT.
The congregation I attend will be five years old in February. We have outgrown our present location in a warehouse and have begun taking donations to procure a building where we can house our 300 members.
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