Why don't we have a bible belt?

[pogofish]

is that in edinburgh????

No, Aberdeen. Built in the mid-late 60s, I have the date in a book somewhere if you want me to go look.

They get encouraged out in the early years of adulthood. Hence you don't see many (if any) female Mormons - among other things they're not usually permitted to preach.

I've certainly met female ones here. They do tend to be less formal in their approach (befrending/helping, instead of traditional evangelising) than the stereotypical clean-cut young men in suits but I think I have seen a sharp-dressed female equivalent of them as well.

They nearly always work in pairs.

 

[Superdupastupor]

No, Aberdeen. Built in the mid-late 60s, I have the date in a book somewhere if you want me to go look.

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ah no ta it no bother.

I think they used the same blueprints for their church in Polwarth, Edinburgh.

 

[mystic pyjamas]

There seem to be a fair number of Jesus Army types round here (Coventry).
I often see their JA vans driving around and their members walking about wearing bright red crosses around their necks,
Usually they are in their 20s/30s.

 

[the button]

You could argue that the UK used to have a sort of "Bible crescent," which was those areas where Methodism really took off -- the north east, across to Lancashire, down into Wales, then Cornwall.

 

[Gromit]

bible belt?

 

[Gavin Bl]

Wales had a revivalist protestant culture very similar to that of parts of the US during the 19th Century.

Related to that was a practice of using words that sound like curses, but aren't really - rather like american phrases like 'darn', there are words like 'jiawch' (replacing "diawr" - devil) and 'jiw jiw' (instead of "duw" - god).

Largely disappeared now, but I'm still good for the occasional 'jiawch!'

 

[kyser_soze]

Greebo you're being a tit, and the only person on the thread to take that interpretation of my post.

FWIW, 1 million Muslims in the US equates to less than 1% of the overall population, and it is overwhelmingly Xtian.

 

[888]

I think that America, although technologically advanced is in a stage of cultural development as a country that is two hundred or so years behind Europe. They are going through a phase that Britain went through in Victorian times.

For example they only recently have been having the debate about Evolution that we had during Darwin's time. Many Americans of the older generation seem to have a Victorian attitude to sexual morality. Their rulers are still in the imperialist phase of their relations with the outside world. Some Americans probably find the non-American world a frightening place and seek solace in a belief in the supernatural.

The development of countries' behaviour isn't based on cultural stages but on economic and technological stages. (Also the debate on evolution occured in the US at the same time as it did in the UK!)