Thursday, July 18, 2013

Best Places to Live Based on 7 Deadly Sins

A real estate blog creatively used social data on the "seven deadly sins" to construct lists of the top 10 "saintly" and top 10 "sinful" cities in America. It's a different method than surveying Biblical reading and self-dubbed affiliation, and it involves biblical application to lifestyle. 

This list also returned different results than the other two similar city lists recently released, and its contents may surprise you.

Top 10 saintly cities:
1. New York, NY
2. Gilbert, AZ
3. Fremont, CA
4. Glendale, CA
5. Chula Vista, CA
6. Chandler, AZ
7. Colorado Springs, CO
8. Long Beach, CA
9. San Jose, CA
10. Irvine, CA
Top 10 sinful cities:
1. St. Louis, MO
2. Orlando, FL
3. Minneapolis, MN
4. Pittsburgh, PA
5. Milwaukee, WI
6. Cincinnati, OH
7. Miami, FL
8. Buffalo, NY
9. Detroit, MI
10. Las Vegas, NV
Christianity Today reports further on all of the lists (links included) here

I wonder if there's other methods to measure biblical living. Maybe cities with more charitable and socially active churches? Cities with churches that positively contribute to local institutions of education, the arts and sciences? 

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