I blogged earlier this week about David Leonhardt's posts about the apparent connection between income and religion. Leonhardt has yet another post on the God versus income debate. An interesting quote he takes from an article on The Chronicle of Higher Education:
"In their book, America’s Four Gods, Paul Froese and Christopher Bader write about the effect that people’s view of the divine has on their financial prospects. Americans, in the authors’ view, are divided into people who view God as an active or inactive presence and as either a benevolent or vengeful God. People who view God as both active and mean often have lower incomes. It’s a little hard to separate the cause and effect here. Do you believe God has it in for you because you have a low income or do you have a low income because you don’t believe you have much chance of doing well in this lifetime."
Looking at the chart, this point has validity to it, considering the more apocalyptic denominations appears towards the bottom left. However, the picture doesn't answer the cause and effect question.
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