Gallup: Georgia 7th most religious state
Georgia is the least religious state in the Deep South, according to the latest heresy from Gallup, and only the seventh most religious in The Union.
The good news? America, despite the best efforts of ice cream-creating non-creationists in Vermont, is still “a religious nation — with about seven in 10 Americans classified as very or moderately religious.”
In the recently-released survey, Mississippi maintains its death-grip as “most religious” state.
Mississippi, which has two football teams in the SEC, including one that stole (not very religious of them!) a football recruit from UGA, has a populace that is allegedly 58% “very religious,” according to the survey.
Georgia, which allows its citizens to fritter away money on the lottery, is ensconced among relatively puritanical neighbors, except for Florida, which is mostly full of Yankees, according to my cousin.
The language of Heaven will definitely have a Southern twang as eight of the top 10 religious states — Mississippi, Georgia, both Carolinas, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana and Arkansas – are in the South.
Utah, which is not Baptist, also ranks high, as does Oklahoma, which fortunately for them is within hollering distance of the Christian people of Arkansas.
Texas, despite the rhetoric from its politicians, ranks 11th.
Vermont, a state with a small population apparently hellbent on tugging a loose thread of the moral fabric of American society, is the least religious state. Only 19 percent of the population there says they go to church regularly or consider religion an important part of their life.
Here’s the complete list from Gallup:
Tell us what you think about the site
Customer Care »
Vacation stops, manage subscriptions and more
AJC Services
Sections
Other Editions
Visitor Agreement | Privacy Statement
© 2013 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
67 comments Add your comment
JREAS
February 15th, 2013
2:50 pm
JSS, of course they’re well represented. You always want to be represented by somebody like yourself. And those 3 are just as ignorant and intolerant as the intellectual elitists they represent.
BILLY MAYS HERE
February 15th, 2013
2:54 pm
lol keep using that third-tier argument bro
freakacomments
February 15th, 2013
2:58 pm
all for education but it doesn’t equal intelligence, funny how the progressives say they are open-minded but in fact are more hateful, prejudiced, and close minded than their targets. I’ll take the naive over the self-righteous hypocrites any day.
Rick
February 15th, 2013
2:59 pm
HUH, The least religious states are the most corrupt, who would have guessed??? I live in Massachusetts, near the bottom and our last three Speakers of the house are all convicted felons, and of course all Democrats. No correlation there though…
JREAS
February 15th, 2013
2:59 pm
Hey Billy, I know it’s rightening to think some Southern, Christian hayseed might actually be smarther than you?
How’s this: im fixin too tern of mi cumputor and goe owt and plow the cornn feild.
Feel better now?
God
February 15th, 2013
3:04 pm
Vermont is least religious but most academic! Wonder what that reveals to anyone? Mississippi most religious and also the poorest and least educated. What does that stat reveal? You know our congressmen aren’t religious since Jesus stated the rarity of such people entering heaven. Then there are those in the Upper Middle and upward that also fit that saying. Amazingly we grow out of Santa but persist in the other. What proof is there? the word put together by Roman Catholics well over 1500 years ago when people also believed weather was controlled by the deity as well as the seasons. Saying the Earth went around the sun led to house arrest. A woman fortune teller burned at the stake while men fortune tellers advised Kings. In the modern world it is used to keep people in their place and to resist socialist principles.
Roekest
February 15th, 2013
3:10 pm
Good. There’s enough Christianity in the South. Never got it: some ancient desert religion with roots in Mesopotamia that, at its root, teaches obedience to some deity……or else. Friggin crazy. We need a return to Paganism, what our ancestors practiced before being so rudely interrupted by Roman Christians and the fools that followed them.
clem
February 15th, 2013
3:16 pm
if one religious school plays another religious school in football, does God remain neutral?
BILLY MAYS HERE
February 15th, 2013
3:25 pm
freakacomments
February 15th, 2013
2:58 pm
all for education but it doesn’t equal intelligence, funny how the progressives say they are open-minded but in fact are more hateful, prejudiced, and close minded than their targets. I’ll take the naive over the self-righteous hypocrites any day.
So tired of hearing this worn-out talking point. Let me quote philosopher Karl Popper to help you out:
If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.
But it is ironic to see Christians and other religious zealots (who throughout history have done the lion’s share of oppressing and acts of intolerance) suddenly claiming to be the victims.
Get real. You’re only fooling yourselves.
BILLY MAYS HERE
February 15th, 2013
3:27 pm
JREAS
February 15th, 2013
2:59 pm
Hey Billy, I know it’s rightening to think some Southern, Christian hayseed might actually be smarther than you?
Doubt it