I have lived for more than 10 years in Virginia (specifically 8 miles south of Washington, DC), North Carolina (specifically the piedmont), and Tennessee (specifically East TN)...
While I am sure that NC and TN are considered to be in the BIBLE BELT, I am not that sure about Virginia.
It was not until I moved to East TN, I came into contact with the term BORN-AGAIN. It was odd at first as people around me began asking me if I had been born again. At first, I just shook my head no, then I started mentioning that my parents had me baptized at a very early age in the Methodist Church.
It appeared quite clear to me that Baptists, especially Southern Baptists, did not think much of other religions, especially Methodists since they said Methodists were religiously and spiritually liberal in their think and behaving.
I found it best to ignore those comments.
Later on, in my tenure with the great state of TN, I discovered that many adults who had become BORN-AGAIN, returned to the way they were before they were BORN-AGAIN, which including consuming alcohol like it was rainwater, and fornicating with married women as if they only had 72 hours to live.
In 1990, I moved from NC to TN and in 2010, my research led me to discover that the divorce rate in the USA was 50% and the divorce rate in the BIBLE BELT of TN was also 50%.
This just goes to show that BORN-AGAIN BAPTISTS did not do any better with their marriages than NON BORN-AGAIN AMERICANS.
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