Comment on this MAP of America's most BIBLE-MINDED cities

by Terry 14 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  eva luna

  soontobe...

  I think it's 87.6% are made up
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  jgnat

  I bit. It looks like church attendance and income (college) is unrelated to self-professed bible-reading. Or else churches are fewer and bigger in the bible-reading cities. Kingdom Halls are almost uniformly 0.01% of the population, except in some of the the non-bible reading cities. Boston and Manchester both have fewer churches and higher median income (college education) than their bible-reading counterparts.

  

  

  	Bible Reading	Churches	Kingdom Halls	Population	Median Income
  Knoxville TN	52%	0.45%	0.01%	179,225	31,898
  Shreveport LA	52%	0.38%	0.01%	199,819	37,591
  Chattanooga TN	52%	0.47%	0.01%	168,393	35,333
  Jackson MS	50%	0.49%	0.01%	173,707	31,875
  Springfield MO	49%	0.32%	0.01%	159,634	30,831
  	Bible Reading	Churches	Kingdom Halls
  Boston MA	16%	0.14%	0.01%	618,147	55,979
  Manchester NH	16%	0.24%	0.02%	109,634	48,720
  Hartford CT	16%	0.62%	0.03%	124,789	28,300
  New Haven CT	16%	0.62%	0.03%	129,774	38,279
  Providence RI	9%	0.34%	0.01%	178,077	37,619

  I picked the top and the bottom from the Barna list, reviewing in depth those cities with 100,000 population or more.

  Sources:

  Bible reading, www.Barna.org

  Population and income, www.city-data.com

  Churches and Kingdom Halls, www.yellowpages.com
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  FlyingHighNow

  Well, it is sure a good thing that there aren't tons more kingdom halls and JWs.
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  Terry

  I'm, frankly, amazed at the UNsuccess of Jehovah's Witnesses!

  134 years of Watchtower Society and only 1% success! Ye Gods! Hire a PR firm and get a TV channel!
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  Satanus

  'Comment on this MAP of America's most BIBLE-MINDED cities'

  It's hard to read.

  S