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USA Religion Map-O-Rama

Looks like the Mormons are turtling against the Baptists' incoming Zerg rush.
 
What the heck are "Restoration Movement Christians" anyways? From their proximity to Baptists, I'd guess they're hard-core fundies, like Reconstructionists?

I pick Lutherans! If they attack at the same time as the Mormons and the Texas Catholics, the Baptists could lose half their territory in a few turns!
 
I love this thread. We should definitely turn this into a game. Contact Sid Meier, quick!
 
What is the deal with Montana, anyway? How can there be strong concentrations of almost every religion there? I thought it was a fairly low-population state? Ditto North Dakota.

And northwestern Alaska is more Quaker than Pennsylvania?!?
 
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Oh, never mind. Duh. It's percentages. So if there are three people per square mile in a low-populated state, and two of them are Reformed Anabaptists for Mohammed, then it will show 66% on the map.
 
TragicMonkey said:
What is the deal with Montana, anyway? How can there be strong concentrations of almost every religion there? I thought it was a fairly low-population state? Ditto North Dakota.
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You're mistaking concentration with percentage. Low population density means that when a couple of Mormons arrive in those states, they're going to show on the map.

Where's the map of woo? Now that would be interesting. Someone get on that, willya?
 
So where are the respondents for "No particular religious affiliation"?

Statistics Canada DOES ask the religion question. And "no particular religious affiliation" clocks in at roughly 18%.
 
Smart_Cookie said:
So where are the respondents for "No particular religious affiliation"?

Statistics Canada DOES ask the religion question. And "no particular religious affiliation" clocks in at roughly 18%.
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Yes, but it's the most hated 18%.
 
I'm surprised to see that the Christian Reformed church was deemed important enough to map. My father (and his father before him, and so on for several generations) grew up in the very blue Michigan county on that map, and it's amazing how culturally and ethnically homogenous that particular area is.

(I'm not rooting for that church.)
 
Ack! Look at all the Muslims in Southern California! Man, we are so Rule 8'd!
 
Forty-Two said:
Which ones in particular?

As an on-again/off-again Methodist, I root for them. And the Amish.
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The Arizonan Wisconsin Synod Lutherans have a special place in my heart, as do the Wyoming Muslims and the Idaho Eastern Orthodoxers.
 
Palimpsest said:
What the heck are "Restoration Movement Christians" anyways? From their proximity to Baptists, I'd guess they're hard-core fundies, like Reconstructionists?

I pick Lutherans! If they attack at the same time as the Mormons and the Texas Catholics, the Baptists could lose half their territory in a few turns!
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I believe that would be the Churches of Christ, and others along that line.

They claim their movement is an attempt to restore Christianity to it's roots. Not reform what those mean ole Catholics did to it.

Their motto is - Speak where the bible speaks, remain silent where the bible remains silent.

They are fundamental, in that they hold to the words of the bible. But I've known members that took no stand on evolution, preferring to leave that to others to debate. Some members I've known concede there could be a "Day/Age" explanation for the creation story. Most I've known really take no stance on it.

Don't tend to rant and rave much though. Fairly harmless bunch :-)
 
c4ts said:
Looks like the Mormons are turtling against the Baptists' incoming Zerg rush.
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Thats one of the funniest things I have read in a long time. I can picture the baptists with their bibles, tossing them at the heathen mormons.
 
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