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New research by the University of Manchester has found that people are less likely to attend religious services regularly if their income rises.
Dr Ingrid Storm analysed survey data on more than 20,000 people in Britain to compare their income and religious attendance.
Her research is the first of its kind to use data on the same people measured over time, from 1991 to 2012.
Dr Storm found that a rise in income of about £10,000 a year (£880 a month) meant that people were 6 percentage points less likely to attend services monthly.
But a fall in income had no effect on people's monthly attendance at churches, mosques and other places of worship, the research showed.
She said that a reason that people turned away from religious services when their income increased was that they had less need for the social support found in religious communities.
People who are busy have less time for extra-curricular activities.
(Score: 2) by Soylentbob on Thursday April 06 2017, @03:45PM (2 children)
Clearly the first one. If the poor consider their lives a net-loss, they could end it. And for the giving, many of them bath in the feeling of "doing good".
(Score: 2) by Justin Case on Thursday April 06 2017, @04:27PM (1 child)
Ah, yes, I forgot. A "bath" of feelings outweighs any attempts to actually understand problems and evaluate solutions. I guess that's why we still have Democrats.
But my point was: are you truly "doing good" if the outcome of your emotion-based actions is to multiply and prolong suffering?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06 2017, @06:46PM
Maybe, just in case, we should come up with, oh, I dunno, some kind of "final solution" to deal with all these genetically substandard poors?