The 30 Least Religious Cities In The United States

Huff n' Puff Post Toasties ^ | 08/09/2015 06:37 PM EDT | Antonia Blumberg

[re_nortex]

A comment from one of the leftist denizens of that socialist forum shows the utter unreality of the mindset in their world:

Lewis Herman - Attention all evangelicals. Note the almost zero correlation between a city's religiosity and its wealth. Nothing gripes me more than this notion that God bestows wealth and health on the pious. If anything, high religiosity in the U.S. is more associated with poverty, poor health, divorce, gun violence, etc. Just look at the South where I live.

Sorry Lewis but the South is the most pro-God, pro-life, pro-liberty and anti-sodomy region of the country. That's why our economy is booming (even with brakes put it on by the current illegal regime). As for places like Portland, OR, they envy our prosperity fueled by the liberty of Right to Work laws.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Evangelism

[wardaddy]

You leave the South or Utah and church attendance drops exponentially

But we’re the bad guys with our evil heritage

[GeronL]

what was the methodology to determine it

[re_nortex]

what was the methodology to determine it

As far as I can determine, it's derived from a poll taken by the Public Religion Research Institute, which claims to be nonpartisan. My instinct tells me their a leftist outfit but, that said, as one who frequently traveled, it does seem right. It's no surprise that Portland, OR leads the list of this rogue's gallery of places that are anti-God. It has a lot of hippie types and good number of the thug element (I almost got mugged there several years ago). Plus Oregon allows "doctor" assisted suicide, a direct repudiation of God's Laws.

[re_nortex]

It was disheartening to see Nashville within the top 30. Long, long ago I lived in Davidson County and it was then known as the Buckle of the Bible Belt. There was a strong Baptist presence there — their publishing house and bookstore used to (and may still) be there, near Union Station. There was also good number of church of Christ and other evangelical church locations. I’m old enough to remember when the city used to almost shut down on Sundays because so many were in church. I surmise that middle Tennessee is still pro-God but most have moved out to Sumner, Rutherford and Williamson.

[re_nortex]

Evangelism

How so? Are you pointing out an error in my remarks or perhaps a typo I made?

[wardaddy]

We have this huge influx of non church going hipsters that have swarmed in the past 5 years

Most under 30

They don’t do church

The 11 county metro Nashville area is very churchy

Our church has three services on Sunday with 900 each

But no matter where

Church attendance is about a third of in my youth

In Jackson ms in 65 on Sunday morning the streets were empty from 9-12

[re_nortex]

For those not wishing to give a page hit to the Huff 'n Puff Post Toasties site, here are all of the "The 30 Least Religious Cities In The United States" that I extracted (in order):

Portland, OR
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA
Denver, CO
Phoenix, AZ
Tampa-St. Pete, FL
Columbus, OH
Detroit, MI (no surprise there, an urban cesspool defined)
Boston, MA 
Los Angeles, CA
Milwaukee, WI
Las Vegas, NV
Twin Cities, MN
Washington, DC 
St. Louis, MO
Miami, FL
KC, MO
Chicago, IL
Philly, PA
NY, NY
Cleveland, OH
Indy, IN
Cincy, OH
Atlanta, GA
Dallas, TX (suburbs are great, the city is a toilet)
Orlando, FL
Houston, TX (see Dallas)
Pittsburgh, PA
Charlotte, NC
Nashville, TN (the old stomping grounds, sad to see this)

[wardaddy]

Lewis Herman is a Jew and likely in name only

Not a good authority on our doctrine

[wardaddy]

I agree

This list is not very accurate

nortex....this is a bull hit job article

See church attendance and professed Christians per city here

http://leadnet.org/most_and_least_unchurched_cities/

[re_nortex]

I think I’m a few years older than you and the Nashville I recall as young man was far different — even before Metro came about and merged the city and county. Over on my side of town (up near Madison), they had old ladies that came around after noon on Sunday to check up if you weren’t seen at services. It wasn’t like they were truant officers, they meant well and just wanted to make sure you weren’t ill. Sure, it was bit nosy but in reality it was an example of a far better place and time.

[Berlin_Freeper]

It was a statement as the solution to the problem.

My criticism of you would be the personal comment where the excerpt belongs.

[fieldmarshaldj]

That’s bizarre about Detroit. Having done a tour (from the safety of Google Maps street view), there were scores of small churches occupying storefronts all over the city.

I’m still in Nashville proper, and it’s disappointing to see our placement on that list. As wardaddy indicated, we’ve had a large influx of young hipster leftists. We’re having a showdown runoff for Mayor shortly between a liberal Republican (the city hasn’t elected a Republican since Grover Cleveland was in his 1st term, 128 years ago) and a Stalinist Democrat woman more appropriate for San Francisco.

[Secret Agent Man]

i’d put madison wi before milwaukee in any serious poll.

[re_nortex]

See church attendance and professed Christians per city here...

I'll take that source as gospel (pun intended) if for no other reason than this paragraph and one of the numbers:

The cities with the highest proportion of residents who describe themselves as Christian are typically in the South, including: Shreveport (98%), Birmingham (96%), Charlotte (96%), Nashville (95%), Greenville, SC / Asheville, NC (94%), New Orleans (94%), Indianapolis (93%), Lexington (93%), Roanoke-Lynchburg (93%), Little Rock (92%), and Memphis (92%).

Since so many of my younger years (and very happy ones) were in middle Tennessee, I'm glad to see that source placing Nashville near the top. My guess is that this is based on the region as a whole instead of just Davidson County. That could be the reason for the disparity in the two lists, the one I posted may just be based on the core city and not the entire metropolitan area.

[preacher]

Does marijuana cause disbelief in God? The top 4 cities have legal pot.

[re_nortex]

I’m still in Nashville proper, and it’s disappointing to see our placement on that list. As wardaddy indicated, we’ve had a large influx of young hipster leftists. We’re having a showdown runoff for Mayor shortly between a liberal Republican (the city hasn’t elected a Republican since Grover Cleveland was in his 1st term, 128 years ago) and a Stalinist Democrat woman more appropriate for San Francisco.

Just to give you an idea of my age, Ben West was still the mayor in my heydey there. That was before Metro government and Bev Briley (the parkway out by Opryland was named after him) becoming the mayor.

One quick off topic thing about Nashville: Do the locals still call the police "Mickey Metro" or did that go out with the BYOB era? :)

[re_nortex]

From what I can ascertain, the poll was based on city/county core and was limited by size. That’s why obvious places such as Madison and Austin didn’t make the cut.

[antceecee]

ALL of my family in Oregon are devout Christians...and there are more and more of them to come , as they grow their families... Too bad for the Portlznd crowd who are killing theirs!