Southern Baptists launch pre-emptive strikes against Assemblies of God

Lark News.com ^ | January 2005

[Quix]

Welllllllllllllllllll!

La-T-Da!

Sniff Sniff.

[dabbing daintily with a virgin white hanky].

Just remember to wail and whine in symphonic chorus, now!

[Quix]

Agreed.

[Godzilla]

"Cry Potluck, and let slip the parishiners of war!"

Not called "full gospel" for nothing.

[Alex Murphy]

In a 2012 article in the Brisbane Times, Southern Cross University researchers are said to have studied data from the Australian "Household Income Labour Dynamics survey", and found a non-conclusive causal relationship that religion leads to an increase in BMI, and not the other way around. Their findings were published in the Journal of Religion and Health, in an article titled "Religion and BMI in Australia".

In that study, 34 percent of Baptists were found to be overweight, 33 percent of agnostics, and 21 percent of Catholics. The researches did not find any correlation of BMI to frequency of church attendance, however.

Please note that this 2006 thread mentions a then-upcoming "shucks and aww advertising campaign" conducted by the Southern Baptists. Could this campaign have been the reason for the high BMI numbers among Baptists in 2012?

"The ads, set to run in major newspapers beginning Thursday, show smiling, overweight Caucasian families walking into Southern Baptist churches. The SBC hopes to attract more smiling, overweight Caucasian families."