One Nation Under God? Yep, And It Ain't Even Close...

[Selene]

Glance at the map above, Second Largest Religious Tradition in Each State 2010, and you will see that Buddhism (orange), Judaism (pink) and Islam (blue) are the runner-up religions across the country.

No surprises there. But can you believe that Hindu (dark orange) is the No. 2 tradition in Arizona and Delaware, and that Baha'i (green) ranks second in South Carolina?

The map — created by the and published recently in — "looks very odd to me," says Hillary Kaell. She is a professor at in Montreal who specializes in North American Christianity. "These numbers, although they look impressive when laid out in the map, represent a very tiny fraction of the population in any of the states listed."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/theprotojournalist/2014/06/21/322919723/the-runner-up-religions-of-america?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20140629&utm_campaign=mostemailed&utm_term=nprnews

LOL Map below...just love the Ohio to Maine Jewish corridor!

http://www.objectivistliving.com/forums/index.php?app=forums&module=post&section=post&do=new_post&f=4

Faith And Race In South Carolina

Louis E. Venters, an assistant professor of history at and author of the forthcoming book Most Great Reconstruction: The Baha'i Faith and Interracial Community in Jim Crow South Carolina, makes an observation similar to Hillary's.

"To put the map in context," he says, "let's acknowledge at the outset that it doesn't take very much to be the second-largest religion in South Carolina. It is a solidly Christian, and particularly Protestant, state, and all the minority religions combined comprise only a tiny fraction of the population."

But, Louis says, "whatever the size of the Baha'i faith in South Carolina — relative to other minority religions — I think its history is quite compelling and worthy of attention in itself."

From as far back as 1910, Louis says, "the Baha'is were virtually unique in Jim Crow South Carolina in attempting to create an interracial religious community — for which they suffered harassment and violence."

By the 1960s, he says, there were local Baha'i organizations in many towns in north Georgia and South Carolina.

The tradition spread. "The Louis G. Gregory Baha'i Institute in Georgetown County, founded in 1972 and named for the black Charleston native who first brought the religion to South Carolina," says Louis, "became a cultural and educational hub for the South Carolina movement. And Radio Baha'i WLGI — broadcasting from the same site beginning in 1985 — has brought its teachings and ethos to a large section of the state."

The story of Louis Gregory and his wife, Louisa, is chronicled by PBS in . In 2003, the Baha'i community designated Louis Gregory's childhood home as a museum.

Louis Venters says, "The Baha'i community today is relatively well-known in South Carolina for its long record of interracialism, strong attention to community service and the education of children and youth of all backgrounds, and contributions to interfaith dialogue."

He adds: "Although the map may have come as a surprise to those who aren't familiar with this history, to me — and I think to most Baha'is in South Carolina — it makes pretty good sense. And if it brings to light one of the South's oldest and most successful experiments in interracial community-building, so much the better."

Quite interesting I think.

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[BaalChatzaf]

I am happy to know that I live in a Good Neighborhood here in New Jersey (the bid-a-bing state).

Where I come from you can get a good pickled beef on rye sandwich.

L'chayim.

Ba'al Chatzaf

[Selene]

I am happy to know that I live in a Good Neighborhood here in New Jersey (the bid-a-bing state).

Where I come from you can get a good pickled beef on rye sandwich.

L'chayim.

Ba'al Chatzaf

Nothing like a good ethnic deli!

And Bob, it is the bada-bing state...

Bada Bing! is a fictional strip club from the HBO drama television series The Sopranos. It was a key location for events in the series, named for catchphrase "bada bing", a phrase popularized by James Caan's character Sonny Corleone in The Godfather.^[1] The popularization of the fictional club benefited the real-life go-go bar where scenes were filmed. The Bada Bing is loosely based on Wiggles, a strip club owned by New Jersey mobster Vincent Palermo before it was shut down.^[2]

Strippers at the Bada Bing were portrayed by extras including Elektra, Justine Noelle, Kelly Madison Kole, Luiza Liccini, Marie Athanasiou, Nadine Marcelletti, Rosie Ciavolino and Sonia Ortega. The "Bada Bing Girls" appeared in a photo spread in the August 2001 issue of Playboy magazine.^[3][4]

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[BaalChatzaf]

I am happy to know that I live in a Good Neighborhood here in New Jersey (the bid-a-bing state).

Where I come from you can get a good pickled beef on rye sandwich.

L'chayim.

Ba'al Chatzaf

Nothing like a good ethnic deli!

And Bob, it is the bada-bing state...

Right, bada-bing. Sorry. I don't speak Goombah.

Ba'al Chatzaf

[Selene]

I am happy to know that I live in a Good Neighborhood here in New Jersey (the bid-a-bing state).

Where I come from you can get a good pickled beef on rye sandwich.

L'chayim.

Ba'al Chatzaf

Nothing like a good ethnic deli!

And Bob, it is the bada-bing state...

Right, bada-bing. Sorry. I don't speak Goombah.

Ba'al Chatzaf

Oy veh!

Neither do I!

It is a Shanda!

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[syrakusos]

In 1978, I was at a conference of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The guy in front of me was in a USAF colonel's uniform. His nameplate read "Sugarman." Going through the lunch line, he built a ham and cheese on rye. I cocked an eyebrow. He turned to me and said, "It's government inspected. That's all I care about."

Space is the place. Come to the high frontier.

My accountant had another client and we three went out to lunch at a Chinese buffet. Barry loaded up on shrimp. "You're not kosher for Passover?" the client asked. ""I'm kosher for Lent!" I replied, loading up on shrimp.