Bible Belt Cities Have Murder Rates Higher Than NYC and LA — Yet Churchians Ignore It!

Rachel N. Stephens
3 min readNov 22, 2022

Imagine if 2 of every 10 people (20%) were dropping dead from drinking water coming out of the faucets in your neighborhood.

Now imagine that in the neighborhood down the street, they have 100 people and 6 (6%) of them died from bad water.

You would wonder what is happening in your neighborhood that the water is killing a larger percentage of your neighborhood than in neighborhoods with larger populations and who use more water.

🚩 SOMETHING IS IN THE WATER

Is there something or someone poisoning the water source in your neighborhood? Is there something specific in the medical histories of the people in your neighborhood that makes them more susceptible to die from what is in the water?

Would you think, "meh, the other neighborhood of 100 people had 6 deaths, therefore what's happening in my neighborhood of 10 people doesn't matter because 6 people is more than 2 people."

No. Because 20 percent is larger than 6 percent. Something is causing the water in your neighborhood to be more dangerous than the water in the neighborhood up the street.

🚩 LA LA LA I CAN’T HEAR YOU

When you ignore percentages, it allows people to not address the cause of these problems. They can gloss over the problems in their own communities by deflecting and pointing the finger at other people and claiming that their own problems aren’t as bad.

🚩THE ANTICHRIST WILL CON THESE TYPES FAST

I bring this up because the sheer number of angry comments I've received on my videos and shorts from the "these people aren't the party of Jesus" series that follow this wacked out line of thinking is frightening.

🚩 A RELIGIOUS FACADE

Why is it that fake-Christian run cities in the Bible Belt have a spirit of murder on them compared to blue states?

https://youtu.be/f2_F9olEslI

🚩GET YOUR OWN HOUSE IN ORDER

If these areas are sooooo Christian and conservative, why do they have higher murder rates than "godless leftist" states who have way more people to manage?

In the same vein...

🚩 MORE RELIGIOUS, THE MORE DEATH

Why is it that in "godless, increasingly secular" Europe they have abortion rates at 12 per 1,000 women while "Christian, founded by Jesus Himself (lol no)" North America has an abortion rate of 19 per 1,000 women?

Why is it that Catholic strongholds of South America and Africa have abortion rates at 32 and 38 per 1,000 women respectively?

Why is it that in "godless, increasingly secular" Europe they have abortion rates at 12 per 1,000 women while Orthodox Christian Eastern Europe has an abortion rate of 43 (!!!) per 1,000 women?

*Statistics from The Guardian.

🚩 MANMADE RELIGION IS DEADLY

Why is it that the more outwardly Christian a place pretends to be, the more abortion, poverty, murder and violence? Could it be that their policies have more to do with manmade religion and keeping people struggling than actual scripture?

Yeah.

⭐ "If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” (referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings? These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh." - Colossians 2:20-23 ESV

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Rachel N. Stephens

Host of #CrackYourBible, a weekly Christian apologetics show on YouTube, based in Las Vegas, Nevada. All posts are also posted, in full, on rachelnstephens.com