Comments on: Distribution of Major Religions in the USA https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/04/19/distribution-of-major-religions-in-the-usa/ Thought-provoking commentary on life, politics, religion and social issues. Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:37:59 +0000 hourly 1 By: Kim Siever https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/04/19/distribution-of-major-religions-in-the-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-7305 Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:37:59 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/04/19/distribution-of-major-religions-in-the-usa/#comment-7305 My mistake.

]]> By: Mary Siever https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/04/19/distribution-of-major-religions-in-the-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-7291 Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:46:19 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/04/19/distribution-of-major-religions-in-the-usa/#comment-7291 Last Lemming

No part of it? Because here in Canada, there is the short census, and then the long one. The short one doesn’t mention religion, the long one does. Not every household gets the long one, like every 5th or 7th one? I want the long one next time…

The U.S. must have some way of figuring out religion statistics.

]]> By: Last Lemming https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/04/19/distribution-of-major-religions-in-the-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-7288 Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:27:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/04/19/distribution-of-major-religions-in-the-usa/#comment-7288 The U.S. Census does not ask about religion.

]]> By: ltbugaf https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/04/19/distribution-of-major-religions-in-the-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-7283 Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:58:12 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/04/19/distribution-of-major-religions-in-the-usa/#comment-7283 Kim, Rick is just taking the chart at its own word. “[R]eported by the church body” is right on the chart. The county population may be census information, but unless the words on the map are untrue, the numbers of church members are reported by the church bodies, not by some other source.

]]> By: Kim Siever https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/04/19/distribution-of-major-religions-in-the-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-7282 Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:35:11 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/04/19/distribution-of-major-religions-in-the-usa/#comment-7282 Rick, I believe this is based on census information, so these numbers are different than those reported by the churches, I am sure.

]]> By: Jeff Milner https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/04/19/distribution-of-major-religions-in-the-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-7272 Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:16:45 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/04/19/distribution-of-major-religions-in-the-usa/#comment-7272 Rick: Me too.

And I’d also be interested to see similar data for Canada.

]]> By: rick https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/04/19/distribution-of-major-religions-in-the-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-7271 Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:15:12 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2006/04/19/distribution-of-major-religions-in-the-usa/#comment-7271 It’s an interesting map, but i’d like to see the same map graphed by attending members rather than ‘total number of adherents reported by the church body divided by the county population’.

It would also be interesting to see a correlative map that incorporates population density.

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