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Following is Gallup's entire list of states, in order of what percentage of respondents said religion is "an important part" of their daily lives:

• Mississippi: 85%

• Alabama: 82%

• South Carolina: 80%

• Tennessee: 79%

• Louisiana: 78%

• Arkansas: 78%

• Georgia: 76%

• North Carolina: 76%

• Oklahoma: 75%

• Kentucky: 74%

• Texas: 74%

• West Virginia: 71%

• Kansas: 70%

• Utah: 69%

• Missouri: 68%

• Virginia: 68%

• South Dakota: 68%

• North Dakota: 68%

• Indiana: 68%

• Nebraska: 67%

• New Mexico: 66%

• Pennsylvania: 65%

• Florida: 65%

• Maryland: 65%

• Ohio: 65%

• Iowa: 64%

• Minnesota: 64%

• Illinois: 64%

• Michigan: 64%

• Delaware: 61%

• Wisconsin: 61%

• District of Columbia: 61%

• Idaho: 61%

• Arizona: 61%

• New Jersey: 60%

• Wyoming: 58%

• Colorado: 57%

• Hawaii: 57%

• California: 57%

• Montana: 56%

• New York: 56%

• Connecticut: 55%

• Nevada: 54%

• Rhode Island: 53%

• Oregon: 53%

• Washington: 52%

• Alaska: 51%

• Massachusetts: 48%

• Maine: 48%

• New Hampshire: 46%

• Vermont: 42%
1 posted on 01/31/2009 9:16:43 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Vermont, that figures. Vermont’s specialty was exposed on O’Reily where Vermont strongly protects their pedophiles over child rights. Not a good place to raise kids.


2 posted on 01/31/2009 9:27:43 AM PST by Cold Heart
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To: SeekAndFind

Liberalism and Godlessness in perfect lockstep.

Where are the freepers who claim the GOP is the party of Southern hillbillies and needs to change?


3 posted on 01/31/2009 9:29:10 AM PST by wardaddy
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To: SeekAndFind

Poorest state equals most attention to God.

Argument for a depression being good for the country.


7 posted on 01/31/2009 9:46:18 AM PST by Golddigger3
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To: SeekAndFind

New England is less religious because of the rot within the old Congregational churches, which were once the Puritans, I believe. That denomination, now the Church of Christ, is extremely left wing. The left wing politics disiplaced the preaching of the Gospel and old-time New Englanders drifted away from the church. That began long ago, probably in the 19th century. Maybe some church historian can shed some light on this.


20 posted on 01/31/2009 10:01:43 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: SeekAndFind

Alaska: 51%


21 posted on 01/31/2009 10:04:04 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: SeekAndFind

**And it’s a matter of them moving away from the church, he said, not the region. “Catholics are holding their own nationwide because of Latino immigration but, relatively speaking, there’s little of that in New England.”**

The Cafeteria is closed and some Catholics don’t want to adhere to certain things.

**Silk suspects some Catholics have left the church because of the Catholic sex abuse scandal that first erupted in Boston, which “kind of pushed some sort of relatively loose affiliation Catholics over the edge.” **

Leaving because of the sex abuse scandals is false. These sexual abuses take part in all churches. Just because one teacher sexually abuses a child — does that mean that ALL teachers sexually abuse children. False thinking is what this article has!

Another thing to think about is that the Catholic Church has been the one and ONLY church through the ages to speak out against sex abuse, same-sex marriage, abortion, stem-cell reseatch, contraception, etc.

The Catholic Church is the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.

Aanother thing to consider — once a person is baptized Catholic, unless they fill out lots of paperwork and have a hearing in front of a panel — they are still and always will be a Catholic.


31 posted on 01/31/2009 10:25:08 AM PST by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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