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How many churches in your town?
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How many churches in your town?
Recently I noticed how many churches we have around.

In any of the bigger cities there are something like 4 churches per district. In my hometown of something like 20,000 people there are 3 churches. A nearby town of 125,000 people has 6 churches. This seems excessive to me. I also can't seem to find the logic behind it. Wouldn't it make more sense to have one church per town instead of multiple which always fight with each other for parishinoers?

I'd like to know if this is a local phenomenon or is it common for christians everywhere. So, how many churches in your hometown?
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RE: How many churches in your town?
I live in Houston currently, and there are 4 churches I pass just on my 2.5 mile walk home from work.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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RE: How many churches in your town?
We have a church on every other block in my town. In my original hometown we just had two on one street, which was called Church Street. We had one more on the other side of a highway as well.
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RE: How many churches in your town?
I live in a town of roughly 40,000, and the closest I can come to estimating is by saying there are dozens.
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#5
RE: How many churches in your town?
There are two Baptist churches on my street. The buildings are about three miles apart from each other.

I don't want to give away my exact location but I looked up the churches in my town. There are 13 Baptist Churches, 3 Methodist Churches, 2 Presbyterian Churches, 8 Pentecostal, and 18 Christian-Other Churches.(That was the heading they were listed under.)

I used this to find all the churches in my community

http://www.churchfinder.com/

According to the internet, there are only about 13,000 people in my small community
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#6
RE: How many churches in your town?
Living in Charlotte, NC...lets just say we have more churches than starbucks plus all the indy coffee shops combined Angry
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RE: How many churches in your town?
(January 28, 2015 at 10:34 am)Xeno Wrote: Recently I noticed how many churches we have around.

In any of the bigger cities there are something like 4 churches per district. In my hometown of something like 20,000 people there are 3 churches. A nearby town of 125,000 people has 6 churches. This seems excessive to me. I also can't seem to find the logic behind it. Wouldn't it make more sense to have one church per town instead of multiple which always fight with each other for parishinoers?

I'd like to know if this is a local phenomenon or is it common for christians everywhere. So, how many churches in your hometown?


What state or country do you reside? I want to move to a place with so few churches. In the Southern USA, churches are everywhere.

edited because I swear that I really do understand the difference between are and or. Tongue
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RE: How many churches in your town?
(January 28, 2015 at 10:41 am)Nope Wrote: There are two Baptist churches on my street. The buildings are about three miles apart from each other.

I don't want to give away my exact location but I looked up the churches in my town. There are 13 Baptist Churches, 3 Methodist Churches, 2 Presbyterian Churches, 8 Pentecostal, and 18 Christian-Other Churches.(That was the heading they were listed under.)

I used this to find all the churches in my community

http://www.churchfinder.com/

According to the internet, there are only about 13,000 people in my small community

Shit, that's a LOT.

(January 28, 2015 at 10:42 am)polar bear Wrote: Living in Charlotte, NC...lets just say we have more churches than starbucks plus all the indy coffee shops combined Angry

Well that definitely sucks.


Wow, I guess I should stop complaining, then! And here I thought we had a lot. It's still too much though. Around 0 would be perfect.
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#9
RE: How many churches in your town?
First and foremost, since we were the capital of Europe from '800 on, we have the imperial chapel of Charlemagne, now a cathedral
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and 76 others, for 250000 inhabitants. Of course, barely anyone actually goes to church any more on sundays.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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RE: How many churches in your town?
(January 28, 2015 at 10:44 am)Nope Wrote: What state are country do you reside? I want to move to a place with so few churches. In the Southern USA, churches are everywhere.

The bestest country in the whole wide world. [/sarcasm]

It's the ass-end of Europe known as Poland. There might be less churches, but you still don't want to move here. Trust me.
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