Colorado ranks in bottom 10 for religious service attendance (Denver, Colorado Springs: 2015, catholic schools)

[allprolab]

Originally Posted by Rainbow Demon

I know some will disagree....but I see no real difference between the crutch of drug use and the crutch of religion. I know folks who are seriously addicted to both...and the behaviors...focused and singular and narrow-minded to a fault/end...are basically one and the same in my eyes. Such is why many addicts turn to "God" when they sober up. It's that classic substitution of one addiction for another, IMO.

"I used to be all fooked up on drugs 'til I found the Lord, now I'm all fooked up on the Lord".

Yup.

As someone who got sober and gives themselves the majority of the credit, it bugs me to no end when someone gets clean and says they owe it all to god. No. You did that on your own, and most likely with help from other people. Recognize and be proud of that fact.

[Colorado Rambler]

Originally Posted by allprolab

I've been doing my part to help keep us at the bottom of the list.

Love the quote and picture. I was raised in the First Christian Church and even as a child my favorite hymn was "This is my Father's World." I can remember singing that old childhood hymn one beautiful summer's day as I drove down Highway 24 from South Park to the Springs. I no longer consider myself Christian, but the mountains are still the place where my spirit lives. These days I attend the church of the San Juans and my creed is to "Walk in beauty" as the Navajo put it. In Colorado our "church" is all around us. Why should we abandon it to go sit in some stuffy meeting hall where a crazy person up front informs us all that we're going to hell?

[Katzpur]

Originally Posted by davebarnes

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
When you insert JC in your official name that sounds "Christian" to me.

You must not have gotten the memo. Mormons just do that to try to get "real Christians" to accept them.

[denverian]

Originally Posted by Indigo Cardinal

I think to add to that, Colorado and Washington state are tied with the number of people who do not identify themselves as Christians (for what it's worth, Wikipedia says 36% of Coloradans do not identify as Christian. It's a little more vague for Washington state, but they're second to us for that.)

Interestingly, we were the first two states to legalize recreational marijuana....gotta wonder if there's a correlation there.

I did wonder how we could be so high for non-Christians, and yet only number 8 for lowest attendance. Maybe Vermont doesn't go as often cuz they get snowed in, and our Focus on the Family adherents go in records numbers to make up for the rest of Colorado?

This was actually something my pagan group and I were talking about last night (somebody brought up people being in the broom closet back where they'd come from), and it got mentioned that the nice thing about being in Colorado was that pretty much, here you can be whatever religion you want to be, or none at all, and the overwhelming majority of people here will not give a damn one way or the other.

And I'll add that no one has ever tried to push their religion on me here (well, other than the Jehova's Witnesses that come to the door) or ask "what church do you go to?", the mandatory 1st question to ask anyone in the South. I know a lot of my neighbors and I'd say the majority, by far, do not have anything to do with religion. None are evangelical, and those who do attend a church or synagogue don't discuss it with anyone.

[denverian]

Originally Posted by Rainbow Demon

I know some will disagree....but I see no real difference between the crutch of drug use and the crutch of religion. I know folks who are seriously addicted to both...and the behaviors...focused and singular and narrow-minded to a fault/end...are basically one and the same in my eyes. Such is why many addicts turn to "God" when they sober up. It's that classic substitution of one addiction for another, IMO.

"I used to be all fooked up on drugs 'til I found the Lord, now I'm all fooked up on the Lord".

Yup.

I've seen that happen... to family members. From one extreme to the other Neither is healthy.

[allprolab]

Originally Posted by Colorado Rambler

Love the quote and picture. I was raised in the First Christian Church and even as a child my favorite hymn was "This is my Father's World." I can remember singing that old childhood hymn one beautiful summer's day as I drove down Highway 24 from South Park to the Springs. I no longer consider myself Christian, but the mountains are still the place where my spirit lives. These days I attend the church of the San Juans and my creed is to "Walk in beauty" as the Navajo put it. In Colorado our "church" is all around us. Why should we abandon it to go sit in some multimillion dollar overly extravagant and highly unnecessary building sitting on land they don't pay taxes for where a crazy person up front informs us all that we're going to hell?

Fixed for accuracy.

[Colorado Rambler]

^^^

LOL! All too sad and all too true!

[MtnJam]

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[UKWildcat1981]

Religion itself is a good thing, its how people apply their religion is why people hate religion, look at the Middle East and Islam as the best example of that. The Christian right and Southern Baptists sometimes **** me off in looking down on all other religions and thinking they better than everyone else. Religion can be a good thing but often people are too literal with the bible thinking everyone they read is gospel.

[Phil P]

The rest of CO must be REALLY irreligious to offset the Christian megacenter that is Colorado Springs.