The three major churches are Southern Baptist, United Methodist, and Church of Christ. There are other churches- Seventh Day Adventists and Pentacostals, mostly. I think the problem around here is a lot of insulation against outside information. Kids are taught from a young age that they should get children who don't go to their church to try to lure them into that church, usually in the form of candy. A kid brings a bag of lollipops to school and says, "You can have one if you promise to come to my church jamboree. If you take one, you have to come. If you don't and take a sucker anyway, you'll go to hell for lying!" They are completely ignorant of sects of their own religion- they probably don't even know what Lutherans are.
I unfortunately was born here, from the only Roman Catholic family in town (my mother converted to Eastern Orthodoxy many years ago). My family, thank goodness, never tried to push religion on me, but there was certainly a lot of push from outside sources. The town I live in is mostly populated by uneducated, upper-lower class white people who are easily frightened by anything that they don't understand and don't believe anything that is told to them unless a family member or member of their church is doing the telling (and once they hear it from them, nothing can convince them otherwise). I cannot wait to leave here. I had to move back home after college, and I've been trying to move away ever since. I lived in Atlanta for a time, looking for a job, but had to move back here when I ran out of money and still had no job.
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Date: 2011-03-30 01:55 am (UTC)I unfortunately was born here, from the only Roman Catholic family in town (my mother converted to Eastern Orthodoxy many years ago). My family, thank goodness, never tried to push religion on me, but there was certainly a lot of push from outside sources. The town I live in is mostly populated by uneducated, upper-lower class white people who are easily frightened by anything that they don't understand and don't believe anything that is told to them unless a family member or member of their church is doing the telling (and once they hear it from them, nothing can convince them otherwise). I cannot wait to leave here. I had to move back home after college, and I've been trying to move away ever since. I lived in Atlanta for a time, looking for a job, but had to move back here when I ran out of money and still had no job.