Top 10 "Post-Christian" Cities In America

[Moloch]

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/07/12/the-countrys-most-post-christian-cities-are-also-the-places-you-want-to-live/

The Country’s Most “Post-Christian” Cities Are Also the Places You Want to Live

    The Barna group, a Christian polling firm, has released its latest list of the most “post-Christian” cities in the country. It’s meant to serve as a warning, but it nicely doubles as a map of places you wouldn’t mind moving to one day.

    Barna has developed a metric to measure the changing religious landscape of American culture. We call this the “post-Christian” metric. To qualify as “post-Christian,” individuals must meet nine or more of our 16 criteria… which identify a lack of Christian identity, belief and practice…

    These kinds of questions — compared to ticking the “Christian” box in a census — get beyond how people loosely identify themselves (affiliation) and to the core of what people actually believe and how they behave as a result of their belief (practice). These indicators give a much more accurate picture of belief and unbelief in America.

In other words, these are the cities where religion is most likely to be considered an afterthought. 10 of them have a post-Christian “score” of 50% or greater, and those cities are almost all found in the Northeast and the West Coast. (Incidentally, several of the cities on Gallup’s list of the communities with the highest levels of well-being make an appearance on the post-Christian list. Coincidence…?)

That list of criteria makes for a nice checklist, too. What’s your score?!

        Do not believe in God
        Identify as atheist or agnostic
        Disagree that faith is important in their lives
        Have not prayed to God (in the last week)
        Have never made a commitment to Jesus
        Disagree the Bible is accurate
        Have not donated money to a church (in the last year)
        Have not attended a Christian church (in the last 6 months)
        Agree that Jesus committed sins
        Do not feel a responsibility to “share their faith”
        Have not read the Bible (in the last week)
        Have not volunteered at church (in the last week)
        Have not attended Sunday school (in the last week)
        Have not attended religious small group (in the last week)
        Bible engagement scale: low (have not read the Bible in the past week and disagree strongly or somewhat that the Bible is accurate)
        Not Born Again

FWIW, I score 13/15 (87%)

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[CoinCube]

I score a 5 on your scale Moloch.  I also live in city #9 above. Its a nice place.

I do my small part to contribute to its gradual desecularization though I am not really surprised to see it on the list.

[bitcoinmaniac52]

I score a 5 on your scale Moloch.  I also live in city #9 above. Its a nice place.

I do my small part to contribute to its gradual desecularization though I am not really surprised to see it on the list.

Regardless what some individuals think, religion is stronger now than ever before in history. Over half of the world believes in Abrahamic religion alone, not counting Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs, etc. There are very, very few people relatively speaking who are incapable of realizing that God is real. It always amuses me when Atheists try to claim that religion is disappearing when in fact the science proves the exact opposite. I believe in science, but apparently most Atheists do not.

[Sithara007]

Surprised to see San Francisco in that list. With the huge Hispanic population there, I was thinking that Catholics would be a majority in that city. Also, there are a lot of Pentecostal and evangelical Christians from the former USSR living there.

[Mometaskers]

I hope these Christians do the same study for every other "Christian-majority" countries. That would be a great help to people just wanting a peaceful place to live in and raise a family. I mean, having to deal with nutjobs (regardless of religiousity or the lack of) on a regular basis cause undue stress and can cut off your remaining years.

Though it might alienate people more from each other if they just live near people with similar beliefs and ideology, I'd rather have that than be in a community where you'd have constant race/religious/ethnic tensions.

Surprised to see San Francisco in that list. With the huge Hispanic population there, I was thinking that Catholics would be a majority in that city. Also, there are a lot of Pentecostal and evangelical Christians from the former USSR living there.

Also happens to be the epicenter of seismic, I mean homosexual activity in the West Coast. 

[joebrook]

I score a 5 on your scale Moloch.  I also live in city #9 above. Its a nice place.

I do my small part to contribute to its gradual desecularization though I am not really surprised to see it on the list.

I always thought there will be a city from Texas in the top 10 cities or maybe they would dominate the list, clearly surprised that there isn't even one among them.

[Love!]

It is good to see the northeast being heavily represented on that list. That's the region of the country I want to retire in, and my idea of a peaceful life is not seeing a church on every other street corner.