Denominational Divide. What Else Can We Chart?

Posted by: Joe
in Church and Society
4
Feb

I thought this picture was an interesting graphic. Personally, I’m somewhat skeptical of most of these types of stats. Thanks go out to Chris Paytas, of love that knows no agenda fame, for bringing it to my attention. I’ll present it as is. Someone asked me how the chart might look if we were to chart self-righteousness instead of denominations. I imagine there were would be some pretty strong spots.

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1   Henry (Rick) Frueh    http://judahslion.blogspot.com/
February 4th, 2008 at 5:48 pm

Red states – blue states. Joe, in this we agree completely. Why is it I can read one of Ingrid’s articles like this and still not get the point? After she maligns large Baptist and Roman Catholic churches, she refers to the large Lutheran as “historic”.

You pride map point is well taken. Nice colors on the map, though, we should all be edified. I thought Ingrid was against demographics.

2   Tim Reed, Owosso MI    http://churchvoices.com
February 4th, 2008 at 6:05 pm

After she maligns large Baptist and Roman Catholic churches, she refers to the large Lutheran as “historic”.

I noticed that too.

If you’re rich you’re eccentric, if you’re poor you’re crazy. If Ingrid likes you you’re historic, if she doesn’t you’re a “circus church”.

3   Henry (Rick) Frueh    http://judahslion.blogspot.com/
February 4th, 2008 at 6:17 pm

Another point of interest, those large church buildings are horrid but those large extravagent pulpits are God ordained. The point is being made because of the denomination, not the waste of money. I think we all need to acknowledge and reject our partiality when it comes to spiritual issues.

I was raised Lutheran, saved by a Southern Baptist, went to a Christian and Missionary Alliance Bible College, ordained SBC, turned Independent Baptist, dabbled in the charismatic circles, and of course now have come to the fullness of all truth. With a donation of $100 I will share it with you.

Maybe…

4   Keith    http://fivepts.blogspot.com
February 4th, 2008 at 8:32 pm

Yahoo!…I’m in a Red State no matter what! Talk about your providence…

Tim: what color was the “circus church?” 8^)>

5   Tim Reed, Owosso MI    http://churchvoices.com
February 4th, 2008 at 10:28 pm

Looks like I’m in a blue state no matter what. Weird.

I suppose circus churhces should be clown colored.

6   Joe Martino    http://joemartino.name
February 4th, 2008 at 10:44 pm

Here’s why I wonder about this fun little chart, It has us as a predominantly “catholic” state, but I used to travel this state a lot and I don’t really remember a lot of catholic churches.

7   Tim Reed, Owosso MI    http://churchvoices.com
February 4th, 2008 at 10:55 pm

Joe,
There’s two largish Catholic churches in Owosso, which, while it isn’t large is a stable population in the sense that people born here often die here. I would guess in larger urban areas where you have the same kind of situation but over a larger population you’ll find lots and lots of Catholics.

8   Dave Muller    http://blog.thewebsiteguy.com.au
February 4th, 2008 at 11:21 pm

There was an episode of Top Gear where they went on an American Holiday and bought $1000 cars to see how well they went against hiring a car. They had one challenge to paint each others cars and drive through the bible belt states. They had a few slogans written on the sides of the cars like “Hillary for President”, “Man love rules, OK” and I can’t remember the others. They pulled up at a servo and were abused then had rocks thrown at them and were CHASED out of the servo and down the road! That one example + the chart says it all for me.

9   Scotty    http://scottysplace-scotty.blogspot.com/
February 5th, 2008 at 10:01 am

I see same thing here that Joe noticed elsewhere. I’m being shown as a blue but, from what I’ve observed in my ten years in Florida, Catholic seems a minority.

I’ve been told by some native Floridians that the Mormon population is qutie large and they own a LOT of property throughout Florida. I took these statement with the gain of salt that it needed.

10   Nathan Rice    http://www.nathanrice.org/
February 5th, 2008 at 10:07 am

More than likely, this chart was made using polling data, not the number of churches in the area. Therefore, if you don’t happen to see a lot of catholic churches in a state that is colored as catholic, then that doesn’t mean it’s wrong, it just means that the people polled answered they were catholic (regardless if they have been to church in the last 10 years or not).

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