Question

Faith and income is becoming an important issue among certain religious groups. Pastors like Joel Osteen believe that your self-worth is tied to your net worth($). Others like Rick Warren, (The Purpose Driven Life author) feel it is baloney and prefer to focus on themes from the Sermon on the Mount.

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As the gap between the haves and have nots continues to widen in the USA, is it easier for a wealthy person or a low income person to find belief and live religious values. Another way to describe this question: are wealthy people more likely to be religious than poor people. Or it makes no difference???/

Answer 1

Both could be true and both could be false. Rich people believe in God and donate money to tune religious institutions for two reasons, one for making them rich and the other group for forgive them for the money they accumulated using illegal ways. Some rich people do not believe in God because they think that their wealth is the result of their hard work and God's blessing. Few other rich people involve in humanitarian aids through which they try to satisfy God.
Poor people on the other hand are more attached to religion because that's where they find their solace. They go there in the hope of getting some help. They also do lots of penance as they don't have money to offer. Poor people are more devoted and more pious than the rich because they still believe that God would redeem them from their poor state of living. The verse in Bible may not be literally taken because there are exceptions where rich people least a simple life and help lots of poor people.