What is the most popular religion in Austin? (Waco, Tyler: neighborhood, centers)

[Filmmaker_49]

I am interested in making a film documentary disproving God and for that I would like to travel to Austin. What is the most popular religion there? Is there a big variety?

[TexasHorseLady]

You may have a bit of difficulty, because for the most part, while there are quite a variety of religions in Austin, and a fair number of atheists, too, people here for the most part don't care what religion their neighbor is or is not as long as they're good neighbors.

Making a big deal about it and proslytizing is bad form, in other words, whether your religion is Protestant, Catholic, Wiccan, Buddhist, Atheist (yes, Atheism that insists that everyone else disbelieve the same way they do is a religion just like any other), or whatever. We do have our big churches, but Hyde Park Baptist, for example, got in trouble not because they're Baptists but because they were eating the neighborhood, a lovely old Austin neighborhood, with their building and parking lot expansions, and the neighbors thought that was being a bad neighbor. (Which it was.)

By the way, "disproving God" with a documentary is going to be just about as difficult as "proving God" with one. Should be interesting to see you try.

[love roses]

There actually is a bigger variety around here than you think. Maybe you should try a City in Texas with a heavier Christian demographic, probably somewhere in East Texas. Tyler, Waco, Victoria. You may also do better in tiny towns or suburbs outside of any of the City centers. Any of the bigger cities in Texas will have more people trying to help you with your documentary than will give you a hard time for making it.

[blkgiraffe]

If you decided to do it in Waco or Tyler; try not to be judgmental because people in these cities can be very sensitive about their religion.

[blakesq]

Especially atheists and global warmingists.

Originally Posted by jluke65780

If you decided to do it in Waco or Tyler; try not to be judgmental because people in these cities can be very sensitive about their religion.

[XLadylawX]

I am an athiest as well as a follower of the scientific method. You cannot disprove the existence of god. Still, I wish you good luck with that.

[crbcrbrgv]

The most popular religion is Austinism. They have a lot of followers from the outside and lots of blind faith from within. Those that know better don't believe.

[Jennibc]

Originally Posted by crbcrbrgv

the most popular religion is austinism. They have a lot of followers from the outside and lots of blind faith from within. Those that know better don't believe.

lol

[thesonofgray]

A documentary disproving god? Odd.

For those that don't believe in such a thing, I'd imagine the reason why would be the simple inability to prove the existence of a higher being...and conversely, the nonexistence.

Some denomination of the Christian religion is the obvious dominant religion, as it is in any metropolitan area in the United States. As far as Catholic/Methodist/Baptist/Nondenominational/etc breakdown, I'm not sure.

And if I currently have your attention, I'd like to request that you abandon such an effort, since I think it will be fairly fruitless. Maybe a documentary on the hypocrisy of many organized religions, or the general ignorance of many of the faithful about the finer details of the religion they choose to follow, or the accurate history of how a religion evolved, or the seemingly natural inclination of humans to gravitate toward religion. That would be much more interesting than a hopeless attempt to disprove something that can't be disproven/proven.

[oldtoiletsmkgdflrpots]

Originally Posted by crbcrbrgv

The most popular religion is Austinism. They have a lot of followers from the outside and lots of blind faith from within. Those that know better don't believe.

Blind Faith:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUW1SGF7bR8