america's most sinful cities

On Valentine's Day, Forbes Magazine gave us a list of America's most sinful cities. Their opening line is: "They say geography is destiny, but perhaps it is damnation as well." Our good buddy, Al Mohler, comments on it here.

Most Lustful: Denver ranked first, joined by San Antonio, Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Boise, Washington, DC, Cincinnati, Columbus, Baltimore and Buffalo/Rochester. The research firm of AC Nielson used sales figures for contraceptives and sex items in ranking the list.

Most Jealous: Memphis tops the list, followed by Charlotte, San Antonio, Seattle, Providence, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Columbus, Oklahoma City, Chicago. The rankings were linked to crime rates for personal property.

Most Obese: Memphis, Birmingham, San Antonio, Riverside/San Bernardino, Detroit, Jacksonville, Nashville, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, San Diego. Health statistics drove this listing.

Most Greedy: San Jose, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Boston, New York, Dallas, Los Angeles, Washington, Miami. The rankings on this sin were determined by looking at the concentration of great wealth.

Most Murderous: The crime statistics are clear - the most murderous city is Detroit, followed by Baltimore, New Orleans, Newark, St. Louis, Oakland, Washington DC, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and Buffalo.

Most Slothful: Memphis tops this list as well, followed by New Orleans, Las Vegas, Detroit, Birmingham, Louisville, San Antonio, Jacksonville, Nashville, and Miami.

Most Vain: "Pride is supposed to be a deadly sin. When it comes to their looks, however, fewer Americans are seeing it that way," say the reporters, who used plastic surgery as the marker for this sin. Perhaps surprisingly, Salt Lake City ranked first, followed by San Francisco, San Diego, San Jose, Miami, Louisville, Nashville, Virginia Beach, New York, and Los Angeles.

welcome to Sodom

Swiped from a Driscoll sermon.

• More money is spent on pornography every year than on every professional sport combined [pro baseball, basketball, football, etc].
• Adult videos/dvds are sold at a rate of $4 billion per year.
• America makes 11,000 adult movies every year. This is 20x the amount of movies put forth by main stream Hollywood.
• There are about 2,500 strip clubs in America [close to 50 per state].
• The word “sex” is the number one searched word on search engines on the internet.
• 70% of all internet porn traffic occurs between 9am – 5pm. This means that people use their company’s high speed internet to feed their addiction away from home.
• 61% of high school seniors had sex. 50% are currently sexually active. 21% have had 4 or more partners.
• The average high school graduate will watch 15,000 hours of television in comparison to being in the classroom for 12,000.
• These high school students will have viewed 14,000 sexual acts and references on TV, only a handful of which are associated with a faithful monogamous relationship.
• Between 6–8% of Americans are sexually addictive [this is somewhere between 16 and 22 million people].