Feb 5, 2013

Survey: Godless Areas Also High Crime & Democrat

Common Sense Commentary: Interestingly, surveys of prison populations show the same results as this survey done in large U.S. cities by the Barna Group.
 
Survey Shows Godlessness in Same Areas
as Violent Crime and Democratic Voting


If you overlaid a map of the Democratic Party strongholds over a map of high crime and violence over a map of people who no longer read and believe the Bible, you would find that they are nearly identical.

The red-blue maps from the 2012 and 2016 elections clearly indicate that most of America ’s big cities tend to vote Democratic in the election. The more rural areas remain Republican strongholds.

When reviewing the locations of the highest rates of violent crimes per capita, you find that they are in America ’s big cities. Crimes committed with guns have a much higher incident per capita in the big cities than in the small communities and rural areas.

A recent survey by the Barna Group, indicates that 95% of the people living in America ’s largest cities do not identify themselves as being Bible-minded. According to Barna, Bible-minded people are those that believe that Bible is true and accurate in the principles it teaches and that they read the Bible weekly.

According to the survey, which was based on 42,855 interviews, the least Bible-minded cities are:

“The least Bible-oriented markets include a mix of regions, but tend to be from the New England area. Easily the lowest Bible-minded scores came from Providence , RI (9%) and Albany , NY (10%). To put this in perspective, the most Bible-minded markets are five times more likely to have residents who qualify as Bible-minded than is true in these two Northeastern cities.

Though these two cities are the most extreme, none of the cities in the bottom 10 break 20%, where even one in five people could be considered Bible-minded. The New England area is home to most of the markets in the bottom 10 Bible-minded cities, including Burlington , VT (16%), Portland , ME (16%), Hartford , CT (16%), Boston , MA (16%), Buffalo , NY (18%) and New York , NY (18%).

The remaining markets in the bottom 10 are primarily in the West and include San Francisco , CA (16%), Phoenix , AZ (17%), and Las Vegas , NV (18%). Cedar Rapids , IA (18%) being something of an outlier.”

The majority of the cities in their survey that ranked in the lowest number of Bible-minded people also happen to be some of the cities with the higher than average violent crime rates and who voted for Obama in the last two elections.

Is there a connection? I definitely believe there is. If you recall the Democratic National Convention last year, it virtually prided itself on its exclusion of anything Christian or biblical. They prided themselves on being supportive of a number of liberal anti-biblical issues such as abortion and gay rights.

So is it any wonder that the larger enclaves of liberal Democrats who have turned away from God’s Word and His laws, also have the higher rates of violent crime per capita? It can easily be summed up that the absence of God and the Bible equates to more liberalism and higher crime rates. But liberals don’t want to admit that their beliefs are the problems that we are experiencing and that have surfaced with events like Sandy Hook and Aurora . They are like an addict that denies his addiction and therefore refuses to seek the proper treatment for his problems.
 
 

So what are we to do and what is the fate of the Godless?  RB

 
"...Earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were .... ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ....The Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. And the angels which (followed Lucifer in rebellion against God), he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.  Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.....But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. Woe unto them! .... These are spots in your feasts of charity....  Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever....Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.  These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.  But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. These be they .... sensual, having not the Spirit...... And of some have compassion.... pulling them out of the fire....Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen."  Jude 1:3-25

 

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