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July 11th, 2012
01:30 PM ET
Your Take: Church and beer tweets studyBy Anna-Lysa Gayle, CNN (CNN)–Twitter isn’t exactly scientific evidence, but it can produce conversation starters. Many readers registered a variety of responses to Dan Merica's recent story, about a study that said Americans tweeted more about church than beer. The study was conducted by Floatingsheep.org, looking at geotagged tweets with the words "church" or "beer" in them. Geotagging allows users of the social media site to indicate their precise location when they send a message. More tweets about church than beer came from the southeastern United States. On the other hand, more tweets about beer than church came from parts of the Northeast. Stories that combine alcohol and religion always get lots of attention from our readers. Look no further than J. Wilson's beer-only lenten fast. His story about his 46-day beer-only fast racked up a ton of comments, tweets and Facebook recommends. The beer/church Twitter comparison also got people typing. Best-selling author Lee Strobel was interested in the geographic breakdown: Strobel, a journalist turned pastor, has written several self-help guides for Christians to spread and rediscover their faith, including the popular "The Case for Christ." For Belief Blog commenter Willow, the two words aren't an either-or proposition.
In the same vein, @Danny_Perez tweeted:
"Christian hipster" Brett McCracken chimed in on Twitter along the same lines. McCracken has previously noted on this blog that there are plenty of "Christian hipsters" who drink. "Christian hipsters tend to serve scotch at their small-group Bible studies, and are largely supportive of such things (mostly good things, I might add) as locally grown produce, thrift stores, fixed-gear bikes, Jon Stewart, traveling abroad, Wes Anderson films, Wendell Berry books, and tobacco (in all forms except chewing).” Others disagreed with the study's findings. Commenter Derp thought the study was lacking detail.
Lots of commenters on the story sought to combine church and beer.
And one of our favorite comments came from an anonymous commenter who put together a top ten list.
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Prayer changes things
Prayer does not; you are such a LIAR. You have NO proof it changes anything! A great example of prayer proven not to work is the Christians in jail because prayer didn't work and their children died. For example: Susan Grady, who relied on prayer to heal her son. Nine-year-old Aaron Grady died and Susan Grady was arrested.
An article in the Journal of Pediatrics examined the deaths of 172 children from families who relied upon faith healing from 1975 to 1995. They concluded that four out of five ill children, who died under the care of faith healers or being left to prayer only, would most likely have survived if they had received medical care.
The statistical studies from the nineteenth century and the three CCU studies on prayer are quite consistent with the fact that humanity is wasting a huge amount of time on a procedure that simply doesn’t work. Nonetheless, faith in prayer is so pervasive and deeply rooted, you can be sure believers will continue to devise future studies in a desperate effort to confirm their beliefs:!
Please stop posting this. I believe it as much as any Christian does, but you're being obnoxious and giving the rest of us a bad name.
Stop contributing to the general stereotyping of those who pray in earnest.
Thank you.
"Stories that combine alcohol and religion always get lots of attention from our readers."
Not nearly as many comments about gay issues and religion!
The original beer/church story garnered about 304 comments in approximately 55 hours. The "Episcopal Church approves same-sex blessing service" story accumulated 910 in just 35 hours, and that was relatively slow for such topics.
Not a very insightful opinion there Ms. Gayle.
Sorry – bad proofreading (due to having to circumvent the filter)
"Not neally as many comments as stories about gay issues and religion!"
"nearly"
Clearly I'm tired and should stop.
catholic engineer
New York City: Largest producer of wealth on the whole Planet!.
The religious red states are the greatest debtor states in the union, feeding their indoctrinated children from the food stolen from the mouths of blue state children.
The fundies don't get it. We marched south and burnt their civiization to the ground once, and some of us are iching to do it again.
What does an "ich" feel like? The 'Union troops' are all sick to their stomach?
Please don't throw up on the Confederacy.
You've never heard of the Ichy & Scrachy show?
I tell my girlfriend that when I call her a bich, it is a major compliment since Baron Bich made a huge fortune making the first commercially successful ballpoint pen, the bic, and I am actually colmlimenting her resourcefulness and insight.
next time you think you're funny, reconsider.
Since the original article only brought in 300-400 comments, I suspect that this article was posted mainly for the purpose of posting Lee Strobel's tweet.
@ME II,
that's a reasonable observation. The original post was not very popular with commenters. They could well be trying to emphasize the relevance? of a tweet on a study of tweets.
Twitter – one more sign that our machine overlords will rise imminently.
CNN gets more bang for the buck by writing a story about the story that they wrote about using what we say about it.
Lazy much?
Agreed.
I think the best part, though, is how much trolling they likely had to wade through to pick out choice comments.
Based on the comments they chose, I think it is safe to say that they didn't read them, but instead threw darts at a few pages printed up, and used those with so slap-dap filler to link them.
As a catholic in the Bible belt, I've noticed a thing or two. In the American Southeast, people are producers: oil, gas, cattle, wheat, corn, cotton, hogs, dairy products etc. This is work. When there's a ripple in the economy, these folks are the first to feel it. It makes people conservative. It causes them to think about a higher power. In other sections of the country, people are mainly consumers. Well provided for, mere consumers have more leisure to think about beer and other comforts. To them, we don't need an oil industry. A gallon of gas originates at the corner store.
@catholic engineer,
what a preposterous post. As an engineer you should be a better analyst of data.
All those midwestern farmers don't produce corn, milk, cheese, wheat, barley, etc, etc? They're only consumers? Absurd!
The highest concentration of more "beer" tweets versus "church" tweets is Wisconsin. Plenty of agricultural producers there.
ps. They produce beer in Milwaukee.
That's so true. Only people in the South work. The rest of us are regularly sent checks so that we can sit around and consume, believing that oil comes from the magic oil fairy at the corner store.
What an impressive intellect you have!
yeah? where'd you get the computer you're typing on? where was the technology developed? where were the satellites developed and assembled that allow you to use the internet?
you say people in the NE and the west don't produce? because they work developing computers and not in a mine means they don't produce? that's such cr@p. and i guess you buying those computers and using the internet don't make you a consumer?
we get tired of hearing you guys are the only hard workers in the country. that's small minded propaganda.
Holy crap. Dafuq did I just read??
Largest Producers of Natural Gas: Texas, Wyoming
Largest Producers of Oil: Texas, Alaska
Largest Producers of Cattle: Texas, Nebraska
Largest Producers of Wheat: Kansas, North Dakota
Largest Producers of Corn: Iowa, Illinois
Largest Producers of Hogs: Iowa, North Carolina
Largest Producers of Dairy: California, Wisconsin
With the exception of North Carolina, no South East States are a top 2 producer of any of the commodities you just mentioned. Others have pointed out your flawed thinking even if they were top producers, but I felt you would probably want to be educated in the fact that your stats are totally wrong regardless. Looks like the Midwest and West are producing everything while the Southeast sits on their butts and reads bibles!
Stupid religious d-o-u-c-h-e-s are all the same.. making up stuff just to satisfy their silly religion.
@catholic engineer,
So are you saying that people that don't labor, don't work?
catholic engineer
Hate to tell you this, but everyone else here is right. The Southeast produces little, which is why there is so much unemployment. This desperation explains why they cling to their bibles and guns, as a wise man once observed.
this worthless story is up twice? w.t.f. CNN? ran out of real news?
Fluffy analysis of a fluffball story.
CNN must get let the journalism club at the local junior high produce these pieces.
Unibroue has a beer for every Christian!
Waiting for The End Times? Have some "Fin Du Monde".
Enjoy condeming sinners from a fiery pulpit? Have some "Maudite".
Perhaps you're in need of an exorcism? Pop the cork on a bottle of "Eau Benite".
Remember that your time on Earth is but a passing thought – get a taste of oblivion with "Ephemere".
or simply revel in the divine gifts that are hops and barley with a pint of "Don de Dieu".
Careful though – these brews from Quebec pack a wallop!
Canadians need help with Doc on their shores! lol
@Nii
Trying to be a cheap knockoff of cappie and others tells us more about you than anything else you've written.
That's not true, HawaiiGuest! Nii has said much crazier things than that! The hilarious part is that Nii lives in Ghana and has never seen Canada. But not having the slightest clue of what you are talking about is a common characteristic of religious fanatics.
"Remember that your time on Earth is but a passing thought – get a taste of oblivion with "Ephemere"
I keep this on tap at home.
Unibrou makes fantastic brews.