Posted on 02/22/2008 8:48:07 AM PST by Between the Lines
They say geography is destiny, but perhaps it is damnation as well.
We have unveiled the American city that has fallen the farthest from grace in each of the seven deadly sins ( lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, wrath, envy and pride). For each sin we stretched our imagination to find a workable proxy--murder rates for wrath, per capita billionaires for avarice--then culled the available data sources to rank the cities. Some of the results were surprising: Salt Lake City as America's Vainest City. Some were not: Detroit as America's Most Murderous.
To view them on our interactive map, simply click on a cardinal sin, and the 10 worst (or best, depending on your point of view) cities for that particular vice will be displayed.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Ouch!
Doesn’t make sense. Mormons are not considered to be vain.
That is surprising. I would never had expected that.
I suspect that you will find that that city also has the highest level of Prozac use.
Well the Mormons are forbidden to have fun (no caffeine, no alcohol, etc.) so they might as well abuse prescription drugs.
You know I never thought of that, but I don't think that prescription drugs are mentioned in the Word of Wisdom.
You know I never thought of that, but I don't think that prescription drugs are mentioned in the Word of Wisdom.
If it has been added to the WOW, I haven't seen the announcement. However, I was surprised to see that Salt Lake City was ranked envy, No. 7, lust, No. 5. Must be all those Californians moving in.
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