Somewhere Roger Williams is shaking his head.
The California-based Barna Group and the American Bible Society say Providence, R.I., is America’s least biblical city, at least based on regular Bible reading and belief in the “accuracy” of the Good Book.
Here’s a quick photo tour through the top rankings (click on any image to start the photo slideshow):
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- Number 10: Buffalo, N.Y. – photo of Buffalo. RNS photo courtesy Doug Kerr via Flickr (http://flic.kr/p/7Ns6vh) *Note: This photo is not available to download.
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- Number 9: Cedar Rapids, Iowa – photo of downtown Cedar Rapids. RNS photo courtesy Paul Sableman via Flickr (http://flic.kr/p/9ySCdX) *Note: This image is not available to download.
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- Number 8: Phoenix, Ariz. – photo of the city. RNS photo courtesy AZAdam via Flickr (http://flic.kr/p/EwqBD) *Note: This photo is not available to download.
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- Number 7: San Francisco – photo of The Golden Gate Bridge. RNS photo courtesy Leonardo Pallotta (http://flic.kr/p/7uys1) *Note: This image is not available to download.
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- Number 6: Boston, Mass. – photo of Boston from Fort Point. RNS photo courtesy Tim Sackton (http://flic.kr/p/dDAEd2) *Note: This image is not available to download.
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- Number 5: Hartford/New Haven, Conn. – photo of the Hartford, Conn. RNS photo courtesy Doug Kerr via Flickr (http://flic.kr/p/8JiCwF) *Note: This image is not available to download.
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- Number 4: Portland, Maine. RNS photo courtesy Garden State Hiker via Flickr (http://flic.kr/p/arL4Ts) *Note: This image is not available to download.
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- Number 3: Burlington, Vt. RNS photo courtesy Doug Kerr via Flickr (http://flic.kr/p/dzV5ER) *Note: This image is not available to download.
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- Number 2: Albany, N.Y. RNS photo courtesy Doug Kerr via Flickr (http://flic.kr/p/7oQAqH) *Note: This image is not available to download.
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- Number 1: Providence, R.I. RNS photo courtesy Doug Kerr via Flickr (http://flic.kr/p/9Gcy6m) *Note: This image is not available to download.
To see yesterday’s list of America’s most ‘Bible-minded’ cities, click here.
7 Comments
Horatio Hornblatt
They ran God out of the schools and someone else took his place, but they’re blaming it on “guns.”
Stutz
Constitutional law forbids public schools from leading students in religious practices. What a horrible country we live in!
If only it had been a private Christian school, I’m sure God would have prevented the shooting. Because that’s how God works.
Horatio Hornblatt
Joe Biden and the term “respect” shouldn’t even appear in the same paragraph. Biden isn’t widely respected, nor does he respect others. The way he conducted himself in the vice-presidential debate was not other than contemptable.
ciao
I am not surprised at these statistics. These same cities too often produce some of the most barbaric acts of inhumanity to man.
Stutz
Lol, like what?
t_r
While there probably is a strong trend toward secularism in these cities, I think the strong Catholic influence in some of these cities would account for a perspective of a people who might consider themselves as biblical but not biblically minded. Biblically mindedness for some mainline faiths would connote a fundamentalism that some would not consider appropriate as a foundational principle to the governance of a city or state.
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