America's Most Godless Cities

Time magazine has an article that is reporting on America's most godless cities.  The research was done by Barna.

Notice how Time starts the article...as if Sodom and Gomorrah are a joke....

America, you may have a new Sodom and Gomorrah.

The two least “Bible-minded” cities in the United States are the adjacent metros of Providence, R.I., and New Bedford, Mass., according to a study out Wednesday from the American Bible Society.

The study defines “Bible-mindedness” as a combination of how often respondents read the Bible and how accurate they think the Bible is. “Respondents who report reading the bible within the past seven days and who agree strongly in the accuracy of the Bible are classified as ‘Bible Minded,’” says the study’s methodology.

Christian missionaries can apparently steer clear of Tennessee, as the report suggests the state is the most devout in the union. Chattanooga was found to be the most Bible-minded city in America, a title it won from last year’s victor, Knoxville.

Overall, the study found an inverse relationship between population density and “Bible friendliness.”

“Not surprisingly, many cities in the East Coast continued to rank as the least Bible-minded in 2013,” says a press release.

Surprisingly, that den of sin called New York City didn’t make the top ten least Bible-minded cities, coming in at 89th in the list of 100. Suspecting New York’s large Jewish population may have rescued it from the bottom ten, TIME inquired as to whether the Torah counted as the Bible for the purposes of the survey. A spokesperson said questioners left it up to respondents to determine what they considered to be the sacred text, but the question asked was, “How many times do you read the bible outside of church or a synagogue?”

“We want people to know that whether you live in the least or most Bible-minded cities, the Bible can speak to your needs, challenges and concerns and help you make sense of your life,” said American Bible Society communications officer  Geoffrey Morin.

The full list ranked 1 to 100 can be seen below.

Here;  http://nation.time.com/2014/01/22/godless-cities-in-america/?iid=obnetwork

The Time reporter evidently thinks this is all kind of funny.  Of course Satan loves us to laugh at sin and to dismiss the idea of hell...or even worse, convince us that hell will be a lot more fun because at least there will be drinking and fornication to our hearts delight!!

Have you ever heard someone say, "I think I'd just as soon go to hell...because that's where all my friends will be!"  Ha ha ha ha!!!

Also notice the study found an inverse relation to the size of the city and Bible reading...meaning that the bigger the city the less Bible reading there is.

Why?  My theory is that as people get away from the agriculture roots they lose the connection between God and nature....so that no man will have an excuse.  If you live your entire life looking at marvelous buildings, bridges and subways you start to marvel at mankind...whereas if you see calves being born and crops being grown and harvested, you tend to be more amazed how God's creating in nature.

Anyway, if you want to be surrounded by Bible literate people...move to Tennessee!

If you want to move to a mission field...move to a big city out East.