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Generalizing obviously, but one thing I've notice driving through the Bible belt is the wealthier towns and cities feel far less religious - far less churches per capita, less Thank You Jesus signs, no religious billboards. And thinking about my friends and family, the very financially successful ones (doctors, entrepreneurs, inventors) are not church goers.
Curious if there are statistics with this or if it seems the same to others and why.
Generalizing obviously, but one thing I've notice driving through the Bible belt is the wealthier towns and cities feel far less religious - far less churches per capita, less Thank You Jesus signs, no religious billboards. And thinking about my friends and family, the very financially successful ones (doctors, entrepreneurs, inventors) are not church goers.
Curious if there are statistics with this or if it seems the same to others and why.
Generalizing obviously, but one thing I've notice driving through the Bible belt is the wealthier towns and cities feel far less religious - far less churches per capita, less Thank You Jesus signs, no religious billboards. And thinking about my friends and family, the very financially successful ones (doctors, entrepreneurs, inventors) are not church goers.
Curious if there are statistics with this or if it seems the same to others and why.
Generalizing obviously, but one thing I've notice driving through the Bible belt is the wealthier towns and cities feel far less religious - far less churches per capita, less Thank You Jesus signs, no religious billboards. And thinking about my friends and family, the very financially successful ones (doctors, entrepreneurs, inventors) are not church goers.
Curious if there are statistics with this or if it seems the same to others and why.
I believe if you plot out the geographic location of fundamentalist churches they are going to be predominantly rural and suburban, seldom inner-city urban. This fits with the tendency for urban areas to be more politically liberal and more areligious.
My oldest surviving brother attends an inner-city fundamentalist church and I note that it's quite a bit more diverse, of necessity, than most fundamentalist churches, and this leads to it being less dogmatic, and a tad more liberal.
When I was in Bible Institute, I recall one time a speaker was invited to our chapel service who ran an inner-city ministry to drug addicts. He made some points that caused the President of the school to squirm visibly in his seat on the podium, and this speaker was never re-invited. Two of his points that I recall were that some Christians are going to be darned surprised who gets into heaven with them, and, related to this, you can't reach addicts and other suffering disenfranchised people if you're starting from a place of judgment. I can see why this would have been discomfiting to an authoritarian like our school's President.
I also note, anecdotally, that wealthy theists tend to be more liberal. But not exclusively. The post-Christian Unitarian-Universalists are a merger of two denominations, one tended to be more blue-collar working people, the other more elitist / brahman / wealthy types. The inside joke among UUs is that one group thought god too good to condemn man, the other thought man was too good for god to condemn.
Generally yes. But that doesn't mean you can't combine great wealth and a healthy / deep spiritual conviction and way of living.
And the opposite is true as well.
You can combine great poverty and a healthy / deep naturalistic conviction and way of living, but it doesn't seem to happen generally (at least in the United States and Non-Western Countries).
Utah billionaire and philanthropist, Jon Huntsman, Sr. (father of the presidential candidate and current ambassador to Russia) died earlier this month. He was born dirt poor and worked hard to achieve his wealth, most of which he ended up giving away. He held many leadership positions in the LDS Church.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. Would be interested to see a higher data point than $100k, but I'm guessing the trend would just continue as the household income increases.
I also note, anecdotally, that wealthy theists tend to be more liberal. But not exclusively. The post-Christian Unitarian-Universalists are a merger of two denominations, one tended to be more blue-collar working people, the other more elitist / brahman / wealthy types. The inside joke among UUs is that one group thought god too good to condemn man, the other thought man was too good for god to condemn.
It may be a joke because the threat of God condemning man for eternity, especially for having differing religious beliefs probably seems absurd to a lot of UUs.
The Key to the blessing of God through Jesus is how do you need God , so if wealth block your need for God , or lack of understand block your need for God , either way and other ways all end up the same , as believers must need God ...... Still there are billionaires and Millionaires who are Christians , as they need God because they may fear losing God because they cannot go through the eye of a camel .... See God knows who need Him and who puts Him in a box , and blesses them that need Him
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