Wednesday, November 18, 2020

San Diego May Not Be Big On Jesus

 ... but, by Jove, we're all over Social Justice.

And by San Diego, I mean the Diocese of San Diego.

This morning, I wrote a PHP script to scrape diocesan websites from across the country and count the instances of the words Jesus, justice, racism, porn, freedom and transgender. It does a recursive search based on the URLs in a-href tags. I don't claim it's perfect, but it seemed to do a good job of crawling the sites.

From this scraper, I discovered that San Diego has the fewest mentions of Jesus, including the words Lord and Christ, per page, but has a positively staggering number of mentions of justice. Here are the relevant tables.

Jesus

JesusJesus / Page
San Diego970.57
Boston750.68
Biloxi1230.94
Chicago1650.95
Washington, DC2681.18
Cheyenne1191.25
Jackson, MS2401.42
Portland3331.52
Nashville2481.54
Mobile3361.62
Los Angeles2501.82
Baltimore6251.84
Bridgeport, CT5433.00
NYC8413.01
Oklahoma City40964.79
Richmond107710.07

Justice


JusticeJustice / Page
San Diego1,3908.13
Bridgeport, CT5943.28
Richmond3032.83
Los Angeles1761.28
Chicago910.53
Baltimore1460.43
Washington, DC530.23
Boston220.20
NYC430.15
Jackson, MS200.12
Cheyenne90.09
Portland140.06
Nashville80.05
Oklahoma City400.05
Mobile80.04
Biloxi20.02

I'm sorry, but 1,390 mentions of "justice" is simply insane for a diocesan website. I think the laity need to stage an intervention. 

"Really, Bishop, this is for your own good."

"I...I just can't accept this. Your intervention team isn't diverse enough!"

3 comments:

WC Varones said...

Well done!

I gotta learn that php stuff!

Anonymous said...

Jesus/Page is my absolute favorite new KPI.

K T Cat said...

Glad I could help! :-)