Mapping religion in America

web blog ^ | April 3, 2006 | Geitner Simmons

[dangus]

Look at the map showing where Catholics are, and then look again at the general map. Where there are Catholics, there is strong religious adherence. (Surprised to see how Catholic the Plains states are?) I think liberal, white Protestants have come to identify religiosity with conservativism, whereas liberal Catholics feel more comfortable in associating with their church enough to be identified as Catholics. "Cafeteria Catholics," "A&P Catholics" (the reference is to Ash Wednesday and Palm Sunday, two annual masses), etc. (The ones that truly are more religious do tend to be socially conservative.)

[dangus]

>> Thus leaving out the vast majority of the those who are followers of the Christ. <<

Non-denominationalists are only a relatively small portion of Christians... There are 250 million self-identified Christians in America, 140 million adherents of a given denomination, and about 5 million non-denominationalists.

(However, there certainly are large numbers of ecumenically-oriented churches that do formally claim a specific denomination.)

[Uri’el-2012]

>XS>> Thus leaving out the vast majority of the those who are followers of the Christ. <<

Non-denominationalists are only a relatively small portion of Christians... There are 250 million self-identified Christians in America, 140 million adherents of a given denomination, and about 5 million non-denominationalists.

(However, there certainly are large numbers of ecumenically-oriented churches that do formally claim a specific denomination.)

22 posted on 06/12/2006 9:48:20 AM MDT by dangus

Here in the west there many more non-denominational congregations than there are Denominational churches

So much so that the maps show that RC outnumber Christian .

b'shem Y'shua

[Alex Murphy]

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