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Permalink Reply by equinox on October 4, 2008 at 8:58pm

I think there is an assembly of god congregation in Nashua which might help explain the fervency. New England in general seems less on fire than other places I have lived like Chicago (and western suburbs - Dupage County) and western PA. As to whether NH seems more on fire, not sure.

Permalink Reply by Supernaut on October 16, 2008 at 6:24pm

My impressions might come from having spent my "church" years in NH before living in MA. I was just thinking the long history of "red-stateness" could be based in more religious tendencies, or it could just be tradition...

Permalink Reply by AdamF on January 16, 2009 at 1:05am

According to bestplaces.net, Nashua and all of Hillsborough County has a theist population of 58.14%, most are Catholic. Compared to Boston which is 60.02% and also mostly Catholic. Though I do see more resistance to evolution and science in general in NH. Could be due to more conservative views, but that is just a guess.

Permalink Reply by Supernaut on January 16, 2009 at 3:45pm

Wow, that's an interesting statistic. Does the remaining 42% consider themselves atheists or "other"? (BTW, I saw that sticker again, except I was in Manchester. They're really letting the state know that Nashua is Jesus' stomping ground apparently.)

Permalink Reply by AdamF on January 18, 2009 at 6:15pm

The site does not elaborate and I do not see any info as to how that information was gathered. Accuracy has not been verified. Though the site does also mention this interesting tidbit:

58.14% of the people in Nashua, NH are religious, meaning they affiliate with a religion. 45.52% are Catholic; 4.83% are Protestant; 0.50% are LDS; 5.66% are another Christian faith; 1.58% in Nashua, NH are Jewish; 0.04% are an eastern faith; 0.00% affilite with Islam.

So I am guessing they mean those that are active in some sort of church.

Regarding the stickers, I drive to and from Manchester and back just about every day and I have not seen one yet. Got an image?

Permalink Reply by Supernaut on January 22, 2009 at 5:41pm

I'll try and snap a picture, I think one of my neighbors has one. They're pretty hard to miss though. If someone in front of you has one, you'll see it. I've only seen it in Manchester once, but I'm a delivery driver so I'm on the road all day.

Permalink Reply by AdamF on February 2, 2009 at 6:29pm

I just recently saw one on my way home. They are hard to miss, the thing took up a good portion of the bumper! Aside from the one, I still see more Darwin/Evolve fish placards or stickers. New Hampshire still looks promising in my view.

Permalink Reply by RtPt on May 14, 2009 at 9:47pm

I have seen Nashua. Jesus needs to do a better job.

I think Maine is the most religious state in New England and Vermont is the least religious...New Hampshire gets stuck in the middle.

Wanna see religious? Take a trip to the Southeast. Scary culture and people...

Permalink Reply by Larian LeQuella on August 26, 2009 at 10:40am

Having just moved up here from the Panhandle of FL, you guys haven't seen shit! In 4 days here I have seen more science/darwin decals than I saw in my entire 6 YEARS in FL. Where I lived, a full 60%+ of the cars had that fucking jebus fish on them, and the people were pretty much overwhelmingly religious. I saw a site that claimed only 50% were religious, but I question that A LOT! There were more churches in the town than libraries, schools, hospitals, and cultural exhibits combined!

Permalink Reply by Ray on May 1, 2010 at 7:59am

I've seen this all over the place, it makes me rage every time. We need "Nashua belongs to the flying spaghetti monster" bumper stickers. I always see one at the Hanover street Hannaford's. I see one there constantly. Oddly enough it's usually parked closest to the liquor store. Pure speculation; but perhaps they aren't "on fire" until they've had a little fire water.