According to survey, they asked people if they had read the Bible in the last week, and if they strongly believed that the principles in the Bible were true. Based on that, the South was the most Bibleminded, and I believe something like the top ten were all there. The Northeast was the was the worst, with some cities at 10% and they had most if not all of the top ten least Bibleminded. New York City, maybe the most influential city in the world, was at 18.8% (I just went and refreshed my memory on this). Next on the least Bibleminded was the West, and the Barna group report on the study says there was an “outlier” with Cedar Rapids, Iowa, also scoring extremely low. Looking at the religious profile of the city, though, the low score isn’t surprising: Catholic 40.8%, United Methodist 13.1 , Evangelical Lutheran Church of America 9.9, Lutheran Church 5.6, Presbyterian Church (USA) 5.0.
Without knowing the study’s methodology, New York City may not be as low as expected because of the high concentration of religious Jews.
Would reading the Koran count?