PHOTOS: Most And Least Religious Cities In America

Friday, May 18, 2012 PHOTOS: Most And Least Religious Cities In The United States Of metropolitan areas with population greater than a million, the researchers found Salt Lake City to be the most religious city with close to 74 percent identifying as a religious adherent. The researchers found the greater area of Portland, OR-WA to be the least religious city with about 32 percent identifying as a religious adherent. Predominantly Black Church That Stood Up For Gay Marriage Faces Closure Cleveland Catholics Are 'Anxious And Edgy' As Parish Reopenings Drag On Have We Gotten Heaven All Wrong? How Meditation Helped One Jew Unplug And Reconnect Facebook, Netiquette And The Bible BLOG POSTS Dr Tasmia Mesbahuddin: Is the 'Hijab' Discriminatory to Women? Let's not fool ourselves, we only have to open the news these days to see horrific articles about women being raped, date raped, molested and faced with a deluge of sexual abuses for their appearances (I mean we have to be a certain shape, size or else we lose our appeal to the opposite sex!). So on that note I find my hijab a very liberating experience. Brandon G. Withrow: Science and the Ups and Downs of Christ's Ascension What intrigues me about the ascension of Christ is not only what it tells me about the ancient world and its "scientific" knowledge of the universe, but also what it tells me about many Christians today. Rabbi Asher Lipner, Ph.D.: For Jewish Orthodox Children: No Justice -- No Peace Jewish children will only be safe when Jewish and non-Jewish people of good conscience work together to demand that the rabbis stop covering up abuse, and that the prosecutors use all their resources and authority to bring the abusers to justice. Melissa Rogers: Obama and the Two Types of Marriage Americans must decide whether they support or oppose recognition of same-sex marriage in our civil laws, but they also must determine how religious objectors will be treated where same-sex marriages are recognized. David Sloan Wilson: The New Atheism and Evolutionary Religious Studies: Clarifying Their Relationship What is the relationship between the New Atheism and Evolutionary Religious Studies? This question is surprisingly complex and needs to be answered in at least three steps.

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