Thread: I'm from Bible belt. How about you?

I've heard some funny names for the american regions.
"Bible belt" or "Sweet tea boundary" - for south or "Sunny belt" - for California.
Does anybody know more?

Hm. Off the top of my head there's: the Borscht Belt, the Bread-basket/Heartland, the Big Easy, Big Apple and Big Muddy, the Panhandle, Death Valley, the Badlands, Motown, Dixie, what else...

First off, Motown is not a region, it is a form of african-american 1940-1950 pop. Ok, I live in the Deep South/Sweet Tea Country/Bible Belt

these names all have special meanings, the Deep South is where southern accents are heaviest, although they are pretty much gone among the younger people (such as myself! im only 15 )

sweet tea country is bc the south is the only place that hace sweet, iced tea. everywhere else has hot, unsweet tea....mmmmm....I LOVE ICED TEA!

bible belt is bc the most Christians live in the south

ok as for the big apple, nobody knows where that came from, some say from a man who held the apple as a sign of opportunity, but it is truly unknown

death valley, the bad lands, lebrea' tar pits, these are all places. death valley is our largest desert, the bad lands area a collection of hot swamps, and the tar pits are...well..tar pits. lol.

ok, the BIG swamp here in the south is the Okeefanokee Swamp. IT IS REALLY COOL! well, hope this helped also, i'd love a russian pen pal or someone to help me learn russian!

Originally Posted by danzarely

First off, Motown is not a region, it is a form of african-american 1940-1950 pop. Ok, I live in the Deep South/Sweet Tea Country/Bible Belt

Uh, Motown is more like 1960-1970. And the name comes from Detroit, which is nicknamed Motown. Any other geographical/historical insight you want to offer in correction to my post there, Magellan?

sweet tea country is bc the south is the only place that hace sweet, iced tea. everywhere else has hot, unsweet tea....

...Was this a joke or what?

I was also under the impression the phrase 'Motown' came from a contraction of 'Motor-Town', ie Detroit.

The sweet tea was right on...I've been all over the US and never found sweet tea like we make it in the South.

Another name for Detroit that I've heard is the "Rust Belt" because they used to be heavy industries, till they moved all the factories to Mexico.

I attended a university in Missouri, and met several students who described their hometowns as being "in the buckle of the Bible-belt"!
Not just the "Bible-belt"! As I understand the meaning to be towns where there are churches on every corner and people actually believe and practice Christianity!

Not just the "Bible-belt"! As I understand the meaning to be towns where there are churches on every corner and people actually believe and practice Christianity!

I don't agree with that definition. If it were true, half of New England would be in the Bible Belt as well. The meaning of Bible Belt is that area of the Southern US where the religious beliefs go to the extent of boycotting large cartoon companies because they give homosexual couples insurance benefits and "the blue Genie from Aladdin looks like Satan." In other words it is called the Bible Belt because it is full of fundamentalists who think the world is still living in 1870--not because they "actually believe and practice Christianity." If that were true the Amish country in Pennsylvania would be considered the jewel on the middle of the buckle. btw the word "Christianity" is pretty subjective--the very impossibility of anyone to clearly define it is why there are so many sects today. Does it mean someone who follows the letter or the spirit of Christian doctrine? Does it mean someone who obeys all of the New Testament or someone who believes that anything other than the things Jesus actually said himself are unreliable? Are Catholics Christians or just Protestants? What about Mormons? There is no way you can define what "actually believe and practice Christianity" means unless you refer only to one branch of it and consider everything outside of it to be "not true Christianity" (in which case, these people might want to have words with you).

Bible belt
n.

Those sections of the United States, especially in the South and Middle West, where Protestant fundamentalism is widely practiced.

Bible belter n.

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Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Originally Posted by Mirriam Webster

Main Entry: Bible Belt
Function: noun
Date: 1925
: an area chiefly in the southern U.S. whose inhabitants are believed to hold uncritical allegiance to the literal accuracy of the Bible; broadly : an area characterized by ardent religious fundamentalism

Yes, I agree that the "Bible-belt" definition does refer to the South, and I accidentaly omitted that from my last post, but what cracks me up is how you freaked out and aired your hostilities against conservatives!!!!

btw The word "Christianity" is pretty subjective-the very impossibility of anyone to clearly define it is why there are so many sects today.

HA!
That statement was sooooo funny to me!
Dearest Mike the Moderator!
I'm suprised that such an "intelligent" gentleman such as yourself could say such a thing!
Christianity is the simplest definiton EVER !
You obviously are confusing RELIGION with being a follower of Jesus Christ! If you want to know what the definition is, go to the Author of the definition! Find out what He says defines who belongs to Him!

Are Catholics Christians or just Protestants? What about Mormons? There is no way you can define what "actually believe and practice Christianity" means unless you refer only to one branch of it and consider everything outside of it to be "not true Christianity" (in which case, these people might want to have words with you).

People can have words with me if they want to, but it won't secure their eternal destination! They can save there "words" for when they meet God face to face! We will each have to face God one day and either be welcomed into His Loving arms or be eternally separated from that perfect Love (by our own choice).

I am not ashamed to say that I am a born-again, Holy-spirit filled, Believer and Follower of my Lord and Savior, God the Son; Jesus Christ.
There are many false Christ's deceiving humanity - the devil's plan to keep people from knowing THE WAY, THE TRUTH, and THE LIFE; Jesus Christ!
So, Mike, where are YOU going to spend eternity?
Don't let hypocrites, fundamentalists, religion, etc keep you from a relationship with the One who loved you enough to die in YOUR place so you could spend eternity with Him!

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Your post is little more than a spiel about salvation with 2 sentences that resemble an actual reply to me or the overall discussion. I know you born-agains want to go out and save everybody else but take it someplace else. If you didn't notice this is a forum for teaching English to Russians, not proselytizing people to what you think is the true religion. So can it.

Originally Posted by karina

I attended a university in Missouri, and met several students who described their hometowns as being "in the buckle of the Bible-belt"!
Not just the "Bible-belt"! As I understand the meaning to be towns where there are churches on every corner and people actually believe and practice Christianity!

Unlike the northern half of the US, which is full of us dirty Catholics and Jews.

Mike,dear, you are hilarious!
I understand completely that this is a forum for teaching English to Russians! That's why I'm typing in English!
The Bible-belt and other funny names for American regions is the topic!
YOU, wise moderator, seem to have broken your own rule!

btw the word "Christianity" is pretty subjective--the very impossibility of anyone to clearly define it is why there are so many sects today. Does it mean someone who follows the letter or the spirit of Christian doctrine? Does it mean someone who obeys all of the New Testament or someone who believes that anything other than the things Jesus actually said himself are unreliable? Are Catholics Christians or just Protestants? What about Mormons? There is no way you can define what "actually believe and practice Christianity" means unless you refer only to one branch of it and consider everything outside of it to be "not true Christianity" (in which case, these people might want to have words with you).

What the heck does that have to do with the topic?

So can it.

Thank youself for opening the can!
p.s.
We "born-agains" can't save anyone. Only the Christ can do that!
Hope you'll decide to receive Him before it's too late!

This one is just too fun for me to stay out of! But I must leave the complete pleasure to Mike.

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1. My reply was pointing out the glaring errors in your definition of Bible Belt. You chose to take this aspect of the overall topic and run with it, not me. Nothing I said was critical of your religion and you have even admitted your original description of the Bible Belt is completely wrong. All I have done is point out the ambiguity and impossibility of defining it as "...towns where there are churches on every corner and people actually believe and practice Christianity..." You have decided to take the opportunity to "reply" to this with irrelevant propaganda. If I had been so lenient as to allow Muslims or Hindus or Satanists to spread their doctrine all over the forum I'm sure you would be all over me about allowing off-topic conversations. Yet strangely you rationalize your own soapbox BS as "my fault" when in reality very little that you have said has really argued that your original statement was correct--to the contrary you have already conceded it wasn't.

2. Even now you disobey me and continue to propagate your religious garbage after I told you it's off-topic and not welcome here. Is everything I'm saying to you somehow not reaching your eyes? When I tell you you cannot talk about something because it is off-topic that means you cannot talk about it because it is off-topic. If you don't like this rule then by all means find someplace else to annoy the moderators at. When you registered you agreed to the Terms of Service just like everybody else.

Consider yourself warned about spamming. One warning is more than most of the advertisers here are given.


This topic has outlived its usefulness.