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	Bible Belt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Bible Belt is an area in which socially conservative Christian Evangelical Protestantism is a pervasive or dominant part of the culture.
		The term "Bible Belt" was coined by the American journalist and social commentator, H.L. Mencken, in the early 1920s.
		It is possible that the extent of the Bible Belt has grown in recent decades, expanding northward and westward; indeed, Southern-style evangelical Christianity has grown significantly outside the South, especially the Southern Baptist Convention.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bible_Belt (1264 words)

	Wikinfo \| Bible Belt
		The Bible Belt is an area including a number of southern and midwestern states in the USA in which fervent Protestantism is a pervasive part of the culture.
		The stronghold of the Bible Belt is typically The South.
		The "belt" terminology is common in the U.S. to describe regions with a roughly east-west orientation that share a feature, such as the Rust Belt, a term to describe declining industrial areas of the northeast and upper midwest, and the Sun Belt, a term for hot-weather states stretching from coast to coast.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Bible_Belt (335 words)

	bible belt information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The term Bible Belt refers to states in the Deep South plus Texas where fundamentalist and evangelical...
		Equip yourself for the Christian life with these new Bible Belts_ for every person and occasion so that that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
		The Bible belt is an area including a number of southern and midwestern states in the USA...
	property-gd.com /articles/56/bible-belt.html (549 words)

	Bible Belt Leads U.S. In Divorces \| Daily Policy Digest \| NCPA (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Aside from the quickie-divorce Mecca of Nevada, no region of the United States has a higher divorce rate than the Bible Belt.
		Religion may play a role, since some of the lowest divorce rates are in northeastern states with relatively high household incomes and large numbers of Roman Catholics whose church doesn't recognize divorce.
		Bible Belt states, in contrast, are dominated by fundamentalist Protestant denominations that proclaim the sanctity of marriage but generally do not want to estrange churchgoers who do divorce.
	www.ncpa.org.cob-web.org:8888 /pd/social/pd111999g.html (306 words)

	Religion (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The first use of "belt" to describe a region, identified by the Oxford English Dictionary, was by the poet Robert Southey in 1810: "A level belt of ice which bound...
		No map of the Bible Belt has been drawn, partly because the U.S. Census keeps no religious statistics and partly because the term is so nebulous.
		By dint of history, geography and dominant culture, the leading contenders for the buckle of the Bible Belt seem to be in Texas and Tennessee.
	www.texnews.com.cob-web.org:8888 /religion97/belt091397.html (982 words)

	The Filter^: Bible Belt
		If we define the Bible Belt as a sequence of Mid-Western/Southern states with a high degree of Protestant fundamentalism, Stark and Bainbrisge claim it doesn't actually exist.
		While the 'Bible Belt' does have a concentration of Protestants, their degree of fundamentalism - as measured by church membership, church attendance, conventional religious belief, prayer, or religious experience - is not significantly different from anywhere else in the USA.
		A crucial constitute of the 'Bible Belt' states is that they're agricultural, creating rural domination of the state legislature.
	thefilter.blogs.com /thefilter/2005/09/bible_belt.html (372 words)

	Amazon.com: Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt: Books: Christine Leigh Heyrman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt, Christine Heyrman traces the difficulties encountered by 18th century evangelicals in spreading Baptist and Methodist beliefs to the South, and discusses the remedies they employed to make their faith more acceptable within southern culture.
		These rough, bold pioneers were actually viewed as effete and effeminate by the plantation hedonocracy because of their distaste for hunting, shooting, duelling, riding to hounds, cursing, dancing, drinking, and gambling which were the pastimes of the leisure class.
		Christine Leigh Heyrman's Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt is a fine piece of history, particularly timely in light of the Southern Baptist's recent proclamation regarding a wife's status.
	www.amazon.com /Southern-Cross-Beginnings-Bible-Belt/dp/0679446389 (2219 words)

	Bible belt - Uncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Proof that Jesus wore one of the world’s first Bible Belts.
		The easy grip release mechanism gives you quick access to your bible, and helps keep your fingers free to turn to the good word, and convert those damned heathens.
		This belt forms one of the key components of the Jesus Wardrobe, a collection of high quality religious garments designed to help spread the word of God, and bring enlightenment to the world.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Bible_belt (408 words)

	Bible Belt Battles High Divorce Rates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A posse of public health nurses, social workers, pastors and extension agents has been deputized to bring down a divorce rate that in Oklahoma, as in several states across the Bible Belt, is among the highest in the country.
		These increases in the buckle of the Bible Belt are well above the 72 percent increase in unmarried couples that the census found in the nation as a whole.
		Demographers say alarm bells ringing in the Bible Belt in the last several years are about 20 years late.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0501/86.html (1812 words)

	Bible Belt states more likely to execute mentally retarded
		NASHVILLE, Tenn.--Bible Belt states have been more likely to execute mentally retarded defendants than other states, according to data compiled by the publication Mental Retardation and the Death Penalty Information Center.
		Thirty-two of the 35 mentally retarded defendants given the death penalty between 1984 and 2000 were executed in Southern states, the statistics show.
		News of religion, faith, missions, Bible study and Christian ministry among Texas Baptist churches, in the BGCT, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) and around the world.
	www.baptiststandard.com /2001/8_6/pages/executions.html (436 words)

	Current Word » Bible Belt Misconceptions
		A Bible Belt is an area in which Christian Evangelical Protestantism is a pervasive or dominant part of the culture.
		This reduction in Protestant churches, relative to the rest of the country especially the South, has created an anomalous situation whereby the center of gravity of American Protestantism has moved to the middle and south, politically and culturally cleaving these regions.
		Finally, because Protestants generally place a greater emphasis on personal Bible study than Catholics do, it might be said that Protestantism is more associated with the terms Bible Belt or “Bible-Thumpers” than is Catholicism.
	www.mathies.com /weblog/?p=360 (586 words)

	Bible Belt getting stretched in Nashville - Sunday, 04/01/01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		All are world religions that call the Bible Belt home in Nashville.
		''The Bible Belt image is getting so stretched that, maybe in 10 or 20 years, you can't use it anymore,'' said Tom Russell, a Western Kentucky University professor of religion.
		He and others are working to maintain the Bible's high profile by promoting a round-the-clock Bible Reading Marathon, April 29-May 3 in Murfreesboro.
	www.tennessean.com /local/archives/01/04/03814884.shtml?Element_ID=3814884 (1179 words)

	Bible Belt Death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Most people may not know it, but the Protestant version of the Christian religion is split over more things than just how to read the Bible.
		(AP) : In this town known as the buckle of the Bible Belt, Christians readily cite the "eye for an eye" scripture rather than "thou shalt not kill" in explaining their position on capital punishment.
		As Tennessee prepares to execute its first death row inmate in 40 years : Robert Coe on March 23 : the state falls in line with the rest of the South, where religious convictions run deep and executions are more frequent than anywhere else in the nation.
	www.sullivan-county.com /nf0/dispatch/death.htm (1077 words)

	Bahai News - Bible Belt Getting Stretched
		That's the latest roll call of local religious pluralism according to a group of students who have been poking around town, counting heads, interviewing gurus and otherwise testing the strength of Nashville's Bible Belt identity.
		America's Bible Belt traditionally refers to the Protestant South, where born-again Christianity still flourishes and Scripture is revered as the ultimate authority for daily life and faith.
		One Korean minister said his congregation, Korean Presbyterian Church, fits the Bible Belt image, believing the traditional doctrines of Christian faith.
	www.uga.edu /bahai/News/040101.html (1154 words)

	The Curt Jester: The Bible Belt
		Equip yourself for the Christian life with these new Bible Belts™ for every person and occasion so that that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
		This Bible is heavily indexed since you know the verse you want is in there somewhere.
		I actually have an employee who is Miss Bible Belt in the all male show, "Pageant".
	www.splendoroftruth.com /curtjester/archives/004237.php (530 words)

	Bible Belt Christianity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Dabney's theology and Southern society were anchored on the belief that the Bible is not only the key to salvation, but also the key to life itself.
		Besides this, if the authority of one man over another in the master-slave relationship is inherently immoral because it violates the principle of natural equality, then by logical extension, any authority which any man exercises over any other without their consent, must also be immoral.
		'The Bible, and the Bible alone, is her [the Church's] rule of faith and practice.
	liberalslikechrist.org /about/BibleBeltChristianity.html (11565 words)

	Bible Belt Beelzebub (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bible Belt readers, I now realize, neither suffer a fool gladly nor hesitate to call a fool a fool.
		I think of the Bible Belt as people who are proud to give their allegiance to a higher spiritual power rather than follow the unwashed rudiments of man."
		A professor of economics spearheaded a movement to have my letters squelched: "Sloan's letters are the moral equivalent of yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater.
	unquietmind.com /beelzebub.html (1008 words)

	Amazon.com: Being Presbyterian in the Bible Belt: A Theological Survival Guide for Youth, Parents, and Other Confused ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I have found that there are many evangelicals in the membership of the Presbyterian Church, USA, who believe that the Bible is the inerrant, infalible word of God, yet do not hold to a literal interpretation of highly symbolic books such as Revelation and Ezekiel.
		I believe in the basic inerrancy of the original autographs of the Bible, and certainly believe that a number of modern translations are distorting the word.
		As a Presbyterian pastor in the Bible Belt, I am constantly encouraging my congregants to move beyond a cultural Christianity to embrace the faith for themselves.
	www.amazon.com /Being-Presbyterian-Bible-Belt-Presbyterians/dp/0664501095 (1744 words)

	Bible-belt town bans blasphemy
		Staphorst, in the so-called Dutch “bible belt” of eastern towns where religion holds sway, approved a ban on swearing by 13-4 council votes.
		But the caveat that swearing is not banned when it is an expression of the constitutional freedom of speech may make it difficult to punish offenders.
		The Dutch association against swearing, which runs national billboard campaigns to admonish the bad-mouthed Dutch, says the Bible outlaws swearing.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /11328/bible-belt-town-bans-blasphemy (403 words)

	In the Bible Belt, Acceptance Is Hard-Won (washingtonpost.com)
		In the Bible Belt, Acceptance Is Hard-Won (washingtonpost.com)
		Stopping for lunch after church, Janice Shackelford reflects on the teachings of the Bible and how they apply to her family, which includes grandson Kaidin, 3.
		The gay revolution hit the buckle of the Bible Belt with a clang.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A49856-2004Sep25.html (1375 words)

	Inherit the Wind (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Scopes Evolution Trial of 1925 - explains the events which lead to the trial.
		Maybe it's just a state of mind - news article on where it is and how it got its name.
		Bible Belt Leads U.S. In Divorces - reasons give a look at the culture of the Bible Belt.
	www.westirondequoit.org.cob-web.org:8888 /ihs/library/wind.html (657 words)

	The Bible Belt, from Life in the USA: The Complete Guide for Immigrants and Americans (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Bible Belt, from Life in the USA: The Complete Guide for Immigrants and Americans (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)
		Life in the USA is a complete guide to American life for immigrants and Americans.
		The term Bible Belt refers to states in the Deep South plus Texas where fundamentalist and evangelical Christianity is taken very seriously.
	www.lifeintheusa.com.cob-web.org:8888 /landhistory/biblebelt.htm (92 words)

	Pure Products USA: The Original Bible Belt
		This Evangelical New Testament Bible comes belted and bound in leather.
		It fastens with a gold-plated buckle in the name of "Jesus." Fits like a fanny pack, yet really protects your rear.
		Featured in the book, At Home with Books (Random House) and in the special collections of The Getty Research Center, the New York Public Library, and several private collections.
	www.pureproductsusa.com /bible.html (61 words)

	USATODAY.com - Maharishi meets the Bible Belt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		"You're in the Bible Belt, and this is a Hindu-based religion.
		The maharishi's followers practice transcendental meditation, silently focusing on a mantra to achieve what they call a state of pure consciousness.
		Those beliefs are "not compatible with Christianity," says Greg Judy of Faith Community Bible Church.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2006-05-22-smith-center_x.htm (982 words)

	Amanda's Letterboxes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Bible Belt Letterboxes are located in Latta Plantation Nature Preserve.
		To figure out the directions and numbers in the clues, you will need a King James version of the Bible.
		The Dove - One of the oldest Christian symbols.
	www.geocities.com /samanark/Clues/NC/biblebelt (526 words)

	Megachurches Cluster in the Bible Belt, Study (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Megachurches Cluster in the Bible Belt, Study (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)
		They place high reliance on the authority of the Bible (88 percent) and very small importance on historic creeds, doctrine or tradition (8 percent).
		Sixty percent of the congregations always include an altar call in the service of worship.
	fact.hartsem.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /Press/mediaadvsry3.htm (885 words)

	Bible Belt
		Let me tell you a story from my life a time when I got a whippin with the Bible Belt.
		My counselor used that same Bible as a weapon against me, to condemn me and shame me. Pete led the evening devotions in our cabin in which he constantly reiterated his narrow view of the Bible and theology.
		And the pain from a real belt did not last nearly as long as the pain from that time I got a whipping with the Bible belt.
	www.tvuuc.org /minister/archive/bbelt.html (2647 words)

	Bible Belt Epistle Wars
		For thousands of readers in north Louisiana, the buckle of the Bible Belt (as locals proudly proclaim), I am "that atheist professor from Ruston," a small town on I-20, not far from Mississippi.
		For ten years, I have written nontheistic letters, about 200 in all, to the Shreveport Times and the Monroe News-Star, the largest newspapers (combined readership a quarter of a million) in the northern half of the state.
		Some respondents try to strong-arm editors: "Sloan's letters are the moral equivalent of yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater.
	www.liberator.net /articles/SloanGary/BibleBelt.html (1474 words)

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