Comments on: Religion and soft drink labels http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/2011/12/religion-and-soft-drink-labels/ A First Things Blog Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:35:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Tom B http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/2011/12/religion-and-soft-drink-labels/#comment-20468 Tom B Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:50:52 +0000 http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/?p=11965#comment-20468 Sorry; not to beat a dead horse; but since i found City-Data.com and because you spoke of New England outside the big cities, I chose the city in Mass. furthest from Boston I could get: Pittsfield in the NW extreme of the State: 77% Catholic: 15% Mainline Protestant Sorry; not to beat a dead horse; but since i found City-Data.com and because you spoke of New England outside the big cities, I chose the city in Mass. furthest from Boston I could get: Pittsfield in the NW extreme of the State: 77% Catholic: 15% Mainline Protestant

]]> By: Tom B http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/2011/12/religion-and-soft-drink-labels/#comment-20467 Tom B Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:10:02 +0000 http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/?p=11965#comment-20467 Pentamom have you ever visited the NY area; I grew up in Westchester and was an adult before ever KNOWINGLY meeting a white Protestant. My world was one where most people are Catholics, some are Jews. Protestants are exotic creatures who live in the deep South and handle snakes (or are Black). Catholics make up 52% of the population of Nassau and Suffolk, with Jews at 16% Catholics make up 72% of the population of Westchester County, mailine Protestants 9% Catholics make up 78% of the population of the Bronx Catholics make up 60% of the population of Queens For Staten Island In terms of religion, the population is largely Roman Catholic. There is a growing presence of Egyptian Copts For Brooklyn : Catholic: 58.8%; Jewish: 24.4%; Protestant: 12% ; Muslim: 3.73% On the other hand of Manhattan alone doesnot have a Catholic Majority, the largest religious affiliation in Manhattan is the Roman Catholic Church, whose adherents constitute 564,505 persons (more than 36% of the population) Jewish-Americans comprise the second largest religious group, with 314,500 persons (around 20.5%),Other large denominations include Protestants (139,732 adherents) and Muslims (37,078). Pentamom have you ever visited the NY area; I grew up in Westchester and was an adult before ever KNOWINGLY meeting a white Protestant. My world was one where most people are Catholics, some are Jews. Protestants are exotic creatures who live in the deep South and handle snakes (or are Black).
Catholics make up 52% of the population of Nassau and Suffolk, with Jews at 16%
Catholics make up 72% of the population of Westchester County, mailine Protestants 9%
Catholics make up 78% of the population of the Bronx
Catholics make up 60% of the population of Queens
For Staten Island In terms of religion, the population is largely Roman Catholic. There is a growing presence of Egyptian Copts
For Brooklyn :
Catholic: 58.8%; Jewish: 24.4%; Protestant: 12% ; Muslim: 3.73%

On the other hand of Manhattan alone doesnot have a Catholic Majority, the largest religious affiliation in Manhattan is the Roman Catholic Church, whose adherents constitute 564,505 persons (more than 36% of the population) Jewish-Americans comprise the second largest religious group, with 314,500 persons (around 20.5%),Other large denominations include Protestants (139,732 adherents) and Muslims (37,078).

]]> By: Anthony Mator http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/2011/12/religion-and-soft-drink-labels/#comment-20459 Anthony Mator Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:49:10 +0000 http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/?p=11965#comment-20459 Coke is a brand name. They should sue! Coke is a brand name. They should sue!

]]> By: pentamom http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/2011/12/religion-and-soft-drink-labels/#comment-20455 pentamom Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:26:56 +0000 http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/?p=11965#comment-20455 At the risk of being a bit pedantic, that religious map is based on which group has the bare plurality in a county. It's pretty hard to think of most of Pennsylvania, New York, and New England (outside the cities) as being "Catholic" places. The reality is that there are more Catholics than any other one thing, but the Lutherans, Methodists, Reformed, Episcopalians, and others have divided up the majority of the population between them. I mean, New York City and Long Island a Catholic bastion? Seriously? At the risk of being a bit pedantic, that religious map is based on which group has the bare plurality in a county. It’s pretty hard to think of most of Pennsylvania, New York, and New England (outside the cities) as being “Catholic” places. The reality is that there are more Catholics than any other one thing, but the Lutherans, Methodists, Reformed, Episcopalians, and others have divided up the majority of the population between them.

I mean, New York City and Long Island a Catholic bastion? Seriously?

]]> By: (Yikes) Mid-week Highlights | Pseudo-Polymath http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/2011/12/religion-and-soft-drink-labels/#comment-20454 (Yikes) Mid-week Highlights | Pseudo-Polymath Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:16:33 +0000 http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/?p=11965#comment-20454 [...] Demographics. [...] [...] Demographics. [...]

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