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Sounds like people that claim to be religious or mention they are Christian to gain trust, I lived in the Bible Belt and saw that a lot
by pers0n 1y ago
Sounds like people that claim to be religious or mention they are Christian to gain trust, I lived in the Bible Belt and saw that a lot
- jjtheblunt 1y agothat's everywhere
- yencabulator 1y agoActually, no. It's incredibly rare in the Nordics, which are way more secular. Claiming to be religious there gains you practically nothing, and might lose you some.
- jjtheblunt 1y agothat is also true in wide, but unpredictably located, swaths of America, i can attest. I grew up in a very famously religious suburb of Chicago, and the proudly super church-y family nearby ended up with the father convicted of embezzling from the church. consistent with your nordic point, it seemed to surprise no one (perhaps because most of the area was northwest european recently derived families).
- tptacek 1y agoI'm trying to think of a famously religious suburb of Chicago besides Skokie, which I would not describe as "church-y". Wheaton? I had to look that up.
- jjtheblunt 1y agowheaton it is. evanston before that as a toddler. you're in oak park? (hi!)
- tptacek 1y agoYep. I lived in Evanston in the late 1990s, too.
- jjtheblunt 1y agowe're basically neighbors in some higher dimensional space.
- tptacek 1y agoThat's true of everybody!
- jjtheblunt 1y agotrue (and a great higher dimensional euclidean joke)