{"id":867,"date":"2009-09-13T15:13:01","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T15:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2009\/09\/the-seven-deadly-sins--by-geographical-region.html"},"modified":"2009-09-13T15:13:01","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T15:13:01","slug":"the-seven-deadly-sins-by-geographical-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2009\/09\/the-seven-deadly-sins-by-geographical-region.html","title":{"rendered":"The Seven Deadly Sins&#8212; by Geographical Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/woman-rage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"woman-rage.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/137\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/09\/woman-rage-thumb-400x300-7760.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>Are certain regions of the U.S. more prone to certain sins?&nbsp; Well, according to one study, it certainly appears this is the case. Here is a link to an article in Wired Magazine that gives us the breakdown. <\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.wired.com\/culture\/education\/magazine\/17-09\/st_sinmaps<\/p>\n<p>What this study suggests is that certain American subcultures are less prone to gluttony or envy or lust or road rage and certain ones are more prone in those directions.&nbsp; I&#8217;m thinking the Amish in Western Pa. and Eastern Ohio didn&#8217;t entirely get a fair shake in some of these charts \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>See what you think.<\/p>\n<p>BW3  <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are certain regions of the U.S. more prone to certain sins?&nbsp; Well, according to one study, it certainly appears this is the case. Here is a link to an article in Wired Magazine that gives us the breakdown. http:\/\/www.wired.com\/culture\/education\/magazine\/17-09\/st_sinmaps What this study suggests is that certain American subcultures are less prone to gluttony or envy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Seven Deadly Sins- by Geographical Region - The Bible and Culture<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2009\/09\/the-seven-deadly-sins-by-geographical-region.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Seven Deadly Sins- by Geographical Region - The Bible and Culture\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Are certain regions of the U.S. more prone to certain sins?&nbsp; Well, according to one study, it certainly appears this is the case. 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