Just sayin' (as an atheist).
BTW: The wealthiest ethnic groups in this country (Japanese, Jews, Persians, Greeks, East Indians) don't tend to have lots of Protestants. Appalachia is filled with tons of Scots Irish Prods who don't have much of a work ethic.
Which I suppose is why we are not having a recession and why property values are stable and why there is not a great deal of unemployment and why refugees are fleeing the northern wastelands and taking up residence here
By the way....East Tennessee FReeper meet on or about April 18th ....Yaalll come!
What the moutaineers did not have much of was the constant stressful social interaction of the city and town. No matter what good ethos they had by inheritance, without constant practice and testing — that ethos, that moral code languished. Jerusalem is a City, not some minor hamlet in the woods.