Floating Sheep has taken user generated Google placemarks for references to four types of Christianity: Catholic, Orthodox, Pentecostal and Protestant. Now placemarks depend upon user generated content, and is thus not scientific. Much of Eastern Europe shows up as Orthodox, while Western Europe shows up Catholic, and Germany shows up as Protestant. Looking at the United States, Pentecostal shows up in the Southeast where most of the rest of the country is Catholic. This raises a red flag with me.

Since I live in the Southeast United States, I know for a fact that there are more Protestant churches (Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian) than Catholic. In other words, the term Protestant is overly general a term. Thus, they then take a look at the United States with more relevant terms, such as Baptist, Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, etc. This leads to the second image to the left, which pretty much confirms that there is not a town in the Southeast United States without multiple Baptist churches.

So after the last week of alcohol and drug related postings I guess you can say that we’ve found religion! Hallelujah! And returning to our earlier analysis of the cyberscapes of religion, the following three maps take a more fine grained look at representations of Christianity on the internet.

via floatingsheep.