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Cooper: Chattanooga, once the most churchgoing city in the country, now ranked the 37th most sinful

Contributed Photo / WalletHub recently ranked Chattanooga as the 37th most sinful city in the country.
Contributed Photo / WalletHub recently ranked Chattanooga as the 37th most sinful city in the country. Contributed Photo / WalletHub recently ranked Chattanooga as the 37th most sinful city in the country.

Talk about Santa Claus knowing when you are bad or good. Santa apparently hasn’t met the folks at WalletHub.

WalletHub, a personal finance website, on Monday issued its report on “2020’s Most Sinful Cities in America,” and Chattanooga is 37th on the list (behind Las Vegas at the top).

The folks there have checked out how lustful, vain, greedy, jealous and lazy we are, among other things.

We’re worse – that is, higher on the list – than Richmond, Virginia, with all of its Confederate controversies, worse than Minneapolis, Minnesota, where George Floyd was killed at the hands of police this summer, worse than Reno, Nevada, with all its gambling, Nashville, with its nightlife on Broadway, and Seattle, where anarchists held part of the city this summer.

Fortunately, we’re less sinful – that is, lower on the list – than Memphis (No. 16) and Knoxville (No. 27), so there’s that.