The "Bible Belts" in Canuckville

SirJosephPorter

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petros said:
You only hear those who are stupid enough to spend their money and lives making noise just for the sake of making noise. It's all bull****. Nobody with half a brain is willing to spend money to go on the record opposing these fools because it only makes them look just as foolish to try and oppose a religious nut job sect with money.
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You may be right, petros, it may be only the nutjobs who make it on the news. All the same, that is indeed the impression of Alberta in Ontario and Quebec, that it represents the Bible Belt of Canada, similar to Alabama, Mississippi or Texas in USA.
 
VanIsle

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SirJosephPorter said:
I think there seems to be some confusion as to what is meant by Bible Belt. Bible Belt does not simply refer to number of religious people, it refers to number of Fundamentalists in the population. Total number of religious people is really not relevant here.

I did try to find statistics as to the percentage of Fundamentalists in each province, but was not able to. If somebody can dig up such statistics, it will be well worth looking at.

So we must consider indirect evidence. What are the issues that characterize the Bible Belt, or religious right? The issues are social issues, they are the red meat to Bible Belt. Issues such as abortion, homosexuality, death penalty etc. If a province has high proportion of religious right, if it is indeed the Bible Belt, we would expect that to be reflected in the attitude of that province towards social issues.

Homosexuality – The opposition to gay marriage was strongest and most fierce in Alberta. Indeed, Klein and Harper felt compelled to proclaim that they will erect a firewall around Alberta to keep gay marriage out. Alberta was also the last province to legalize gay marriage, it was dragged kicking and screaming into doing so.

Death penalty – I have already posted a poll about death penalty showing that support for death penalty is the highest in Alberta.

Abortion – I remember seeing polls which show that opposition for abortion is the highest in Alberta.

The only prominent Fundamentalist politician is Stockwell day, who is from Alberta. Now, a leader like that does not arise in a vacuum, there has to be plenty of activists, plenty of supporters for a leader to arise.

Taken it all together, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that Alberta is indeed the Bible Belt of Canada.
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Why would the stats be worth digging up? Who cares! For so many people who claim to dislike religion you sure are spending a lot of time trying to figure it out.
 
petros

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petros said:
You only hear those who are stupid enough to spend their money and lives making noise just for the sake of making noise. It's all bull****. Nobody with half a brain is willing to spend money to go on the record opposing these fools because it only makes them look just as foolish to try and oppose a religious nut job sect with money.
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If an Evangelical isn't looking or playing the bigger than life role then he or she isn't doing what they do best will fail financially because of attrition.
 
petros

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SirJosephPorter said:
You may be right, petros, it may be only the nutjobs who make it on the news. All the same, that is indeed the impression of Alberta in Ontario and Quebec, that it represents the Bible Belt of Canada, similar to Alabama, Mississippi or Texas in USA.
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To be honest when I think bible belt I look at Ontario Amish.

They make the Hutterrites or Mennonites out here look like Liberals.
 
VanIsle

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lone wolf said:
Now, if someone were to hijack one of your threads, you'd be protesting long and loud. Remember that thing about pooping posies?
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My threads (the few I do) are hi-jacked all the time. People get off topic everywhere on every thread. I'd rather forget about the pooping posies thank you very much and by the way - I was not the first hi-jacker anyway. Did you bug Avro or is it just me you like to bug? :roll:
 
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SirJosephPorter said:
I think there seems to be some confusion as to what is meant by Bible Belt. Bible Belt does not simply refer to number of religious people, it refers to number of Fundamentalists in the population. Total number of religious people is really not relevant here.

I did try to find statistics as to the percentage of Fundamentalists in each province, but was not able to. If somebody can dig up such statistics, it will be well worth looking at.

So we must consider indirect evidence. What are the issues that characterize the Bible Belt, or religious right? The issues are social issues, they are the red meat to Bible Belt. Issues such as abortion, homosexuality, death penalty etc. If a province has high proportion of religious right, if it is indeed the Bible Belt, we would expect that to be reflected in the attitude of that province towards social issues.

Homosexuality – The opposition to gay marriage was strongest and most fierce in Alberta. Indeed, Klein and Harper felt compelled to proclaim that they will erect a firewall around Alberta to keep gay marriage out. Alberta was also the last province to legalize gay marriage, it was dragged kicking and screaming into doing so.

Death penalty – I have already posted a poll about death penalty showing that support for death penalty is the highest in Alberta.

Abortion – I remember seeing polls which show that opposition for abortion is the highest in Alberta.

The only prominent Fundamentalist politician is Stockwell day, who is from Alberta. Now, a leader like that does not arise in a vacuum, there has to be plenty of activists, plenty of supporters for a leader to arise.

Taken it all together, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that Alberta is indeed the Bible Belt of Canada.
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Is that to infer there is something wrong with Alta.?
 
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"The talk about building firewall around Alberta reverberated all over Canada."- That's probably why it reverberated, it was only "talk" - if it was typical it wouldn't have made the news.
 
lone wolf

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VanIsle said:
My threads (the few I do) are hi-jacked all the time. People get off topic everywhere on every thread. I'd rather forget about the pooping posies thank you very much and by the way - I was not the first hi-jacker anyway. Did you bug Avro or is it just me you like to bug? :roll:
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He's not getting all preachy.

...and yes, I did ask if it was a slow day.
 
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AnnaG said:
I don't give a crap about who picks on Porker, but if you think my showing where he makes errors is picking on him, then fine, you go ahead and believe that. But he is not the only one who's errors I point out when I see them, so according to you, I must be picking on everyone.
Want to get back to the topic now?
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who is porker, he must have a forum name right?
 
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VanIsle

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lone wolf said:
He's not getting all preachy.

...and yes, I did ask if it was a slow day.
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That's all. You asked if it was a slow day! Biggie. YOU preach at me but you tell me I'm all preachy and just ask Avro if it's a slow day.
Well - it wasn't a slow day for me. I'm in a foul mood so - move over.
 
lone wolf

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VanIsle said:
That's all. You asked if it was a slow day! Biggie. YOU preach at me but you tell me I'm all preachy and just ask Avro if it's a slow day.
Well - it wasn't a slow day for me. I'm in a foul mood so - move over.
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VI's mad, I'm glad. I know how to tease her. Put her behind the bathroom door, open it and squeeze her....:p
 
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