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Where the Christian Right Is Strong (national map included)
The New York Times ^ | July 2, 2014

Posted on 07/02/2014 5:05:48 PM PDT by Faith Presses On

The religious right remains one of the most potent forces in American politics, but Northeasterners could be forgiven for forgetting. Evangelical Christians and Mormons, the two religious groups who most consistently espouse conservative political and cultural views, are basically absent in the Northeastern corridor.

The map shows the number of regular Evangelical Christian or Mormon congregation members, as reported by religious bodies. The data, therefore, does not include every Mormon or Evangelical Christian in the country. Black Protestant denominations are a separate category from other Evangelical Protestant denominations in this data set, and are not represented on this map.

The map does not neatly represent the religious right, either. There are many religious and cultural conservatives who do not regularly attend church, perhaps especially in West Virginia, where reported attendance is unusually low.

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To: Rome2000

Homosexuals and lesbians abound in the “clergy” spawned by Luther.

...oy vey...


41 posted on 07/03/2014 6:48:35 AM PDT by IrishBrigade (')
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To: Linda Frances

we must acknowledge our sins, repent and believe and accept Jesus death on the cross as payment for our sins, turn from our sins and we will be saved. We are saved by grace and not works.

...repenting from sin and turning against it doesn’t count as a ‘work’...? Do you contend that ‘grace’ is achieved through some involuntary osmotic process, independent of rational choice and subsequent action on that choice...?

...seems to me that ‘action’ and ‘work’ are one and the same...


42 posted on 07/03/2014 7:10:39 AM PDT by IrishBrigade (')
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To: Salvation

Source and authority for that statement?

...the statement in question consists of two independent clauses...which clause are you requesting to be sourced...?


43 posted on 07/03/2014 7:17:54 AM PDT by IrishBrigade (')
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To: fso301

To do the will of the Father - as Jesus told us.
“When two or more are gathered together in my name, I am in the midst.”

I believe that if a Catholic and a Protestant are together and they pray Our Lord’s Prayer, the Our Father, He will be in our midst. Do you deny this?

I will pray for all the freepers here because of these divisions, and I hope they will pray for me as well.


44 posted on 07/03/2014 7:22:03 PM PDT by Gumdrop (~)
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To: Gumdrop
I believe that if a Catholic and a Protestant are together and they pray Our Lord’s Prayer, the Our Father, He will be in our midst. Do you deny this?

No. I wish Protestants and Catholics would spend more time focusing on shared beliefs.

45 posted on 07/03/2014 8:10:17 PM PDT by fso301
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To: fso301; Elsie; Tennessee Nana; Colofornian; metmom; boatbums; caww; presently no screen name; ...
I think it safer to say Mormons are not mainstream Christians. Belief in the Trinity is not a condition for salvation and scriptural support for the Trinity is not as strong as many assume it to be.

The heretical nature of the Mormonic god and other doctrines is quite clear. http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/JosephSmithVersusJESUS.CHRIST.html

And some fellow FReepers can help you will more.

46 posted on 07/03/2014 9:41:13 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: Verginius Rufus
Catholics are split between liberals and conservatives. Probably they left them out because there was no easy way to identify which Catholics were which, whereas the Evangelical Protestants and Mormons were more uniform and easier to identify.

Those Rome counts and treats as members in life and in death are mostly liberal.

40% Roman Catholics vs. 41% Non-R.C. see abortion as "morally acceptable"; Sex between unmarried couples: 67% vs. 57%; Baby out of wedlock: 61% vs. 52%; Homosexual relations: 54% vs. 45%; Gambling: 72% vs. 59% http://www.gallup.com/poll/117154/Catholics-Similar-Mainstream-Abortion-Stem-Cells.aspx


47 posted on 07/03/2014 9:45:11 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: IrishBrigade; Rome2000
Homosexuals and lesbians abound in the “clergy” spawned by Luther.

Only when your definition of Protestant" is so wide you can drive a Unitarians Scientology Swedenborgian 747 thru it, a broad brush RCs would never stand for.

Stats (^ arrow refers to lst ref. source):


48 posted on 07/03/2014 9:49:28 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: daniel1212
The heretical nature of the Mormonic god and other doctrines is quite clear.

I'm not trying to be a Mormon apologist but only God knows who he will and will not save. Within the original context of the sub-thread, I find no scriptural basis for believing salvation to be based upon acceptance of the Trinity. If a person's interpretation of scripture causes them to reject the Trinity, that doesn't mean they aren't saved.

49 posted on 07/03/2014 10:05:50 PM PDT by fso301
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To: detective; AlmaKing; Faith Presses On; Psalm 73
They just make up things like this to insult and ridicule people of faith.

No, it has a rich history, and once was basically the same as "fundamentalist," and denotes a conservative movement, but usually such are defined as being "born again" (which is not necessarily the same), or being in a conservative denom, or with Barna, as holding to certain basic doctrines.

See here http://www.peacebyjesus.com/RC-Stats_vs._Evang.html#Evangelical

50 posted on 07/03/2014 10:07:33 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: fso301; daniel1212; Elsie; All
I think it safer to say Mormons are not mainstream Christians. Belief in the Trinity is not a condition for salvation and scriptural support for the Trinity is not as strong as many assume it to be.

Mormons are polytheists who also believe that they themselves will become gods after death, provided they are holy enough, which is clearly condemned throughout the entirety of the scripture, such as when God declares "Is there a God beside me? Nay, there is no God; I know not any" (Isa 44:8). There is no "gray" area between the historical belief in one God by Jews and Christians for more than two thousand years and the Mormon belief in many gods. Furthermore, to hold to a false Gospel is damning. The Apostle teaches that whoever preaches a different Gospel than what he has delivered to us, "let him be accursed" (Gal 1:8). Similarly, the Apostles also condemn those who wish 'God speed' to those who teach false gospels, so that even those who apologize for the enemies of Christ, though they themselves may claim to not be of them, also share in the guilt (2 John 1:10-11).

The Trinity is also not obscure, but a clear and present reality in the scripture. Nor do Christians tolerate those who refuse to affirm the Trinity and who give succor to those who deny it, although they themselves pretend to be "moderate" Christians. There is no option for being neither hot nor cold when it comes to the essentials of the Christian faith, but instead an active confession is required (Rom 10:9, Rev 3:15-16). If you hold yourself in a position where you neither affirm or deny such an important question as whether the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are a trinity, then you are damned, as you have no love for truth and, therefore, lack evidence of the drawing of the Holy Spirit, who works infallibly to bring all that the Father has given to the Son into the Son's arms (John 6:37).

51 posted on 07/03/2014 11:49:36 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Faith Presses On
The map shows the number of regular Evangelical Christian or Mormon congregation members, as reported by religious bodies.

...or Mormon...

or Mormon???


52 posted on 07/04/2014 4:13:22 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Faith Presses On
Black Protestant denominations are a separate category from other Evangelical Protestant denominations in this data set, and are not represented on this map.

Blacks AGAIN being dissed!

53 posted on 07/04/2014 4:16:32 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Bryanw92
This map is misleading.

ANYthing with MORMONs included in it is 'misleading'!

54 posted on 07/04/2014 4:17:25 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Faith Presses On; teppe; staytrue
Where the Christian Right Is Strong (national map included)

Mormons might be on the 'right' side of the political aisle; but MORMONism sure as HELL is NOT Christian!!


MormonISM glombed onto Christ almost 200 years ago and blasted ALL of Christianity as apostate and evil.

It preached that ONLY the words of Joseph Smith were correct and had NOTHING to do with Christainity, other than stealing the name of Jesus to place on the side of it's building.

The same hypocritical, spineless weasels that highjacked the NAME, threatens ANYONE using the word MORMON to refer to ANY group not under the fat thumb of Salt LAke City, with a conversation with it's LAWYERS!!!


Media Letter   
26 June 2008 — Salt Lake City  (http://newsroom.lds.org/additional-resource/media-letter)

*The following is a letter from Elder Lance B. Wickman, General Counsel of the Church to publishers of major newspapers, TV stations and magazines. It was sent out on Tuesday, June 24, 2008.




Recent events have focused the media spotlight on a polygamous sect near San Angelo, Texas, calling itself the “Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.” As you probably know, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has absolutely no affiliation with this polygamous sect. Decades ago, the founders of that sect rejected the doctrines of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, were excommunicated, and then started their own religion. To the best of our knowledge, no one at the Texas compound has ever been a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Unfortunately, however, some of the media coverage of the recent events in Texas has caused members of the public to confuse the doctrines and members of that group and our church. We have received numerous inquiries from confused members of the public who, by listening to less than careful media reports, have come to a grave misunderstanding about our respective doctrines and faith. Based on these media reports many have erroneously concluded that there is some affiliation between the two – or even worse, that they are one and the same.

Over the years, in a careful effort to distinguish itself, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has gone to significant lengths to protect its rights in the name of the church and related matters. Specifically, we have obtained registrations for the name “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” “Mormon,” “Book of Mormon” and related trade and service marks from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and corresponding agencies in a significant number of foreign countries.

We are confident that you are committed to avoiding misleading statements that cause unwarranted confusion and that may disparage or infringe the intellectual property rights discussed above. Accordingly, we respectfully request the following:

  1. As reflected in the AP Style Guide, we ask that you and your organization refrain from referring to members of that polygamous sect as “fundamentalist Mormons” or “fundamentalist” members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  2. We ask that, when reporting about this Texas-based polygamous sect or any other polygamous group, you avoid either explicitly or implicitly any inference that these groups are affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  3. On those occasions when it may be necessary in your reporting to refer to the historical practice of plural marriage in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, that you make very clear that the Church does not condone the practice of polygamy and that it has been forbidden in the Church for over one hundred years. Moreover, we absolutely condemn arranged or forced “marriages” of underage girls to anyone under any circumstances.

Stated simply, we would like to be known and recognized for whom we are and what we believe, and not be inaccurately associated with beliefs and practices that we condemn in the strongest terms. We would be grateful if you could circulate or copy this letter to your editorial staff and to your legal counsel.

We thank you for your consideration of these important matters.

Sincerely,

Lance B. Wickman

General Counsel

55 posted on 07/04/2014 4:25:14 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Faith Presses On; teppe; staytrue

... and blasted ALL of Christianity as apostate and evil.


Questions put to Joseph Smith: "'Do you believe the Bible?' [Smith:]'If we do, we are the only people under heaven that does, for there are none of the religious sects of the day that do'. When asked 'Will everybody be damned, but Mormons'? [Smith replied] 'Yes, and a great portion of them, unless they repent, and work righteousness." (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 119).
Joseph Smith: "for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible" (from Pearl of Great Price 1:12). "What is it that inspires professors of Christianity generally with a hope of salvation? It is that smooth, sophisticated influence of the devil, by which he deceives the whole world" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.270).
 
 
 
Brigham Young stated this repeatedly: "When the light came to me I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness" (Journal of Discourses 5:73); "The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God" (Journal of Discourses 8:171); "With a regard to true theology, a more ignorant people never lived than the present so-called Christian world" (Journal of Discourses 8:199); "And who is there that acknowledges [God's] hand? ...You may wander east, west, north, and south, and you cannot find it in any church or government on the earth, except the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (Journal of Discourses , vol. 6, p.24); "Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity" (Journal of Discourses 10:230).
 
 
 
Orson Pratt proclaimed: "Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the 'whore of Babylon' whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent" (The Seer, p. 255).
 
 
 
Orson Pratt also said: "This great apostasy commenced about the close of the first century of the Christian era, and it has been waxing worse and worse from then until now" (Journal of Discourses
, vol.18, p.44) and: "But as there has been no Christian Church on the earth for a great many centuries past, until the present century, the people have lost sight of the pattern that God has given according to which the Christian Church should be established, and they have denominated a great variety of people Christian Churches, because they profess to be ...But there has been a long apostasy, during which the nations have been cursed with apostate churches in great abundance" (Journal of Discourses , 18:172).
 
 
President John Taylor stated: "Christianity...is a perfect pack of nonsense...the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work than the Christianity of the nineteenth century." (Journal of Discourses , vol. 6, p.167); "Where shall we look for the true order or authority of God? It cannot be found in any nation of Christendom." (Journal of Discourses , 10:127).
 
 
 
James Talmage said: "A self-suggesting interpretation of history indicates that there has been a great departure from the way of salvation as laid down by the Savior, a universal apostasy from the Church of Christ". (A Study of the Articles of Faith, p.182).
 
 
 
President Joseph Fielding Smith said: "Doctrines were corrupted, authority lost, and a false order of religion took the place of the gospel of Jesus Christ, just as it had been the case in former dispensations, and the people were left in spiritual darkness." (Doctrines of Salvation, p.266). "For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation ...Joseph Smith declared that in the year 1820 the Lord revealed to him that all the 'Christian' churches were in error, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 3, p.282).
 
 
 
More recent statements by apostle Bruce McConkie are also very clear: "Apostasy was universal...And this darkness still prevails except among those who have come to a knowledge of the restored gospel" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol 3, p.265); "Thus the signs of the times include the prevailing apostate darkness in the sects of Christendom and in the religious world in general" (The Millennial Messiah, p.403); "a perverted Christianity holds sway among the so-called Christians of apostate Christendom" (Mormon Doctrine, p.132); "virtually all the millions of apostate Christendom have abased themselves before the mythical throne of a mythical Christ whom they vainly suppose to be a spirit essence who is incorporeal uncreated, immaterial and three-in-one with the Father and Holy Spirit" (Mormon Doctrine, p.269); "Gnosticism is one of the great pagan philosophies which antedated Christ and the Christian Era and which was later commingled with pure Christianity to form the apostate religion that has prevailed in the world since the early days of that era." (Mormon Doctrine, p.316).
 
 
 
President George Q. Cannon said: "After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, there were only two churches upon the earth. They were known respectively as the Church of the Lamb of God and Babylon. The various organizations which are called churches throughout Christendom, though differing in their creeds and organizations, have one common origin. They all belong to Babylon" (Gospel Truth, p.324).
 
 
President Wilford Woodruff stated: "the Gospel of modern Christendom shuts up the Lord, and stops all communication with Him. I want nothing to do with such a Gospel, I would rather prefer the Gospel of the dark ages, so called" (Journal of Discourses , vol. 2, p.196).

56 posted on 07/04/2014 4:26:37 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Linda Frances
Does it concern anyone when the left, whose number one enemy is Christians, is mapping out where we live?

I'll bet Facebook has a LOT of INFO in it's vast files!

57 posted on 07/04/2014 4:28:12 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Linda Frances
Does it concern anyone when the left, whose number one enemy is Christians, is mapping out where we live?

I'll bet most people to worry about are in a CHURCH on Sunday mornings...

58 posted on 07/04/2014 4:28:58 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: fso301
I think it safer to say Mormons are not mainstream Christians. Belief in the Trinity is not a condition for salvation and scriptural support for the Trinity is not as strong as many assume it to be.

It's good to avoid assumptions as much as possible; when we have ACTUAL evidence from MORMONism that can speak for itself; OK?




 

Trinity:

 

found in the Book of MORMON        -----------   rejected in the Doctrines and Covenants 

Book of Mormon:

Now Zeezrom said: Is there more than one God? And he answered, No. (Alma 11:28-29)

...and be arraigned before the bar of Christ the Son, and God the Father, and the Holy Spirit, which is one Eternal God, to be judged according to their works, whether they be good or whether they be evil. (Alma 11:44)

...doctrine of Christ, and the only and true doctrine of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, which is one God, without end. Amen. (2 Nephi 31:21)

...praises with the choirs above, unto the Father, and unto the Son, and unto the Holy Ghost, which are one God, in a state of happiness which hath no end. (Mormon 7:7)

...power of God; and the Son, because of the flesh; thus becoming the Father and Son--And they are one God, yea, the very Eternal Father of heaven and of earth. And thus the flesh becoming subject to the Spirit, or the Son to the Father, being one God, (Mosiah 15:3-5)

...of Jared, that whoso should possess this land of promise, from that time henceforth and forever, should serve him, the true and only God, or they should be swept off when the fulness of his wrath should come upon them. (Ether 2:8)


"Behold, I am Jesus Christ the Son of God. I created the heavens and the earth, and all things that in them are. I was with the Father from the beginning. I am in the Father, and the Father in me; and in me hath the Father glorified his name." (3 Nephi 9:15)


"And again the Lord called others, and said unto them likewise; and he gave unto them power to baptize. And he said unto them: On this wise shall ye baptize; and there shall be no disputations among you. Verily I say unto you, that whoso repenteth of his sins through your words and desireth to be baptized in my name, on this wise shall ye baptize them--Behold, ye shall go down and stand in the water, and in my name shall ye baptize them. And now behold, these are the words which ye shall say, calling them by name, saying: Having authority given me of Jesus Christ, I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. And then shall ye immerse them in the water, and come forth again out of the water. And after this manner shall ye baptize in my name; for behold, verily I say unto you, that the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost are one; and I am in the Father, and the Father in me, and the Father and I are one...And thus will the Father bear record of me, and the Holy Ghost will bear record unto him of the Father and me; for the Father, and I, and the Holy Ghost are one." (3 Nephi 11:22-27, 36)

Doctrine and Covenants:

According to that which was ordained in the midst of the Council of the Eternal God of all other gods before this world was, that should be reserved unto the finishing and the end thereof, when every man shall enter into his eternal presence and into his immortal rest. (Section 121:32)

And again, verily I say unto you, if a man marry a wife, and make a covenant with her for time and for all eternity, if that covenant is not by me or by my word, which is my law, and is not sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise, through him whom I have anointed and appointed unto this power, then it is not valid neither of force when they are out of the world, because they are not joined by me, saith the Lord, neither by my word; when they are out of the world it cannot be received there, because the angels and the gods are appointed there, by whom they cannot pass; they cannot, therefore, inherit my glory; for my house is a house of order, saith the Lord God. And again, verily I say unto you, if a man marry a wife by my word, which is my law, and by the new and everlasting covenant, and it is sealed unto them by the Holy Spirit of promise, by him who is anointed, unto whom I have appointed this power and the keys of this priesthood; and it shall be said unto them--Ye shall come forth in the first resurrection; and if it be after the first resurrection, in the next resurrection; and shall inherit thrones, kingdoms, principalities, and powers, dominions, all heights and depths--then shall it be written in the Lamb's Book of Life, that he shall commit no murder whereby to shed innocent blood, and if ye abide in my covenant, and commit no murder whereby to shed innocent blood, it shall be done unto them in all things whatsoever my servant hath put upon them, in time, and through all eternity; and shall be of full force when they are out of the world; and they shall pass by the angels, and the gods, which are set there, to their exaltation and glory in all things, as hath been sealed upon their heads, which glory shall be a fulness and a continuation of the seeds forever and ever. Then shall they be gods, because they have no end; therefore shall they be from everlasting to everlasting, because they continue; then shall they be above all, because all things are subject unto them. Then shall they be gods, because they have all power, and the angels are subject unto them. (Section 132:18-20)

Abraham received concubines, and they bore him children; and it was accounted unto him for righteousness, because they were given unto him, and he abode in my law; as Isaac also and Jacob did none other things than that which they were commanded; and because they did none other things than that which they were commanded, they have entered into their exaltation, according to the promises, and sit upon thrones, and are not angels but are gods. (Section 132:37)

 

 

59 posted on 07/04/2014 4:33:03 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Rome2000
Jesus had Peter set up the Church.

Your screenname says where you are coming from.

We've got enough threads concerning Catholic vs Protestant teachings.

Can we leave THIS one to point out MORMON heresy?

60 posted on 07/04/2014 4:35:03 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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