“JESUS HE KNOWS US …”
|| By FITSNEWS || South Carolina ranks No. 6 in the nation in terms of the percentage of its population attending religious services on a weekly basis. At least that’s according to new polling from Gallup.
Forty-two percent of South Carolinians say they worship weekly at a church, synagogue or mosque – which puts the Palmetto State in a tie for sixth place with Tennessee. The “Holiest” state? Utah – where 51 percent of residents say they attend services each week. Mississippi ranked No. 2 (47 percent) followed by Alabama and Louisiana (46 percent) and Arkansas at No. 5 (45 percent).
So yeah … basically the SEC West.
The least “religious” state? Vermont – where only 17 percent of the population worships weekly. Close behind is New Hampshire at 20 percent. Why is that interesting? Well voters in South Carolina and New Hampshire obviously play starring roles in the presidential nominating process … which makes their presence at opposite ends of the nation’s church-going spectrum very interesting.
Also of interest? The ongoing decline of religious participation across the country – according to Gallup’s historical data.
In 1999, seventy percent of Americans said they belonged to a church or synagogue – and 43 percent of them said they’d worshiped within the prior week. By 2013, only 59 percent of Americans said they belonged to a congregation – and only 39 percent said they’d worshiped within the prior week.
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Hey Will, are you just trying to set up a holy war on the comments section here?
He’s been posting a lot lately, must be coming up on “clicks week” when they set the advertising rates.
Wonder if his advertisers know that his readership is made up almost entirely of retired or unemployed men over 40? They’re looking for the ladies.
46th for healthy economies..once again thank God for Mississippi.
45th for education
42nd South Carolina Median Income
> Median household income: $43,107
> Population: 4,723,723 (24th highest)
> Unemployment rate: 9.1% (tied-7th highest)
> Pct. below poverty line: 18.3% (9th highest)
48th in high school graduation rates.
46th for College educated residents..
and South Carlina can claim our own little Gene Alday, GrandasshatwhogoesbythesillytrwatnameEmily who lets be honest, should drop us a full ranking in every category just cause the ignorant liar lives here.
Update your statistics.
“Unemployment rate: 9.1% (tied-7th highest)” ????
Try 6.5%
SC needs the Good Book to keep its mind off the fact that the state is one giant pig pen.
Don’t worry about how shitty things are now. It’s God’s will. Things will be much better after you die. *wink *wink
Sorry. I was posting elsewhere as Emily Peterkin. She’s a little nicer that my GrandTango character. Maybe I’ll bust out Big T later for old times sake? In any case, back to work…
You dumb@$$ loser liberals…like Fits…just love me slapping the $h!t of you everyday!!!. Probably because your God Obummolungo is commanding his Muslim buddies ISIS to murder peace-loving Christians. When will you F&€Kfaces realize that liberals are destroying every thing about this country that was great!!! Just wait till 2016, when a republican (I cannot name) will wipe the floor with Hillary’s old, brain damaged @$$!!! LOL!!!!!!!
you are funnier than that stupid ad on the internet about the stomach fungus eating perhaps as 70% of all Americans alive…wait..maybe your stupid brain has that same fungus crawling around………..
Please don’t tell the pew warmers. Surely we’ll have Grahmnesty for POTUS if they find out. :-P
Noticed a typo. South Carolina ‘used’ to play a starring role in the presidential nominating process.
Vermont and new Hampshire are numbers 1 and 3 for “states with the greatest number of hippies living on communes” per capita as well.
You’d think they all would want to move down here – the weather provides for a better weed crop – so I’ve been told.
Praise Jay-ZUSS-ah! — and pass the offering plate.
So, THIS is why SC is so goddamn backwards.
#1 Shit holiest state
These polls are the most commonly distorted based on the location. Often those polled will answer as they think people want them to answer. So in a Bible Belt state like here, you’re more likely to actually lie when asked, because you don’t want others to know you’re not going weekly, because you think they’re going weekly, when in fact they’re actually going to Waffle House when they pull out of the driveway on Sunday morning. Else, don’t you think the Pope would be coming here instead of Philly?
Bible Thumpers are Smarter
Not really. Actually, there is not much data.
Church attendance is associate with higher education, but Atheists is even more so.
It is hard to make comparisons. Church goers tend to be older and older people have fewer college degrees. Atheist tend to be younger. Republicans and conservatives have the highest church attendance but so do Blacks all at 55%.
“Forty-two percent of South Carolinians say they worship weekly at a church, synagogue or mosque…”
Guess that means there are 42% if South Carolinians that go to church, since I doubt there are enough Jews and Muslims in SC to move the needle that much…
Maybe we can just get Benny Hinn to “heal” the entire state…