Why Are People Poor? Because they're Lazy, Say Almost Half of Christians in the U.S.
Jesus Christ may have lived as a poor man and consistently been on the side of those with little material wealth, but a poll shows almost half of the Christians in the United States believe people who live in poverty do so because they’re lazy. Indeed, Christians, particularly white evangelicals, are much more likely than non-Christians to associate a lack of wealth with a lack of effort, according to a poll from The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation published Thursday.
The survey, conducted between April 13 and May 1 with a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points, indicated that 46 percent of Christians believed that a lack of effort is generally to blame for a person’s poverty, compared with 29 percent of non-Christians.
For white evangelical Protestants, that number rose to 53 percent, with just 41 percent attributing other circumstances to an individual’s poverty. Fifty percent of Catholics blamed a lack of effort for poverty.
“There’s a strong Christian impulse to understand poverty as deeply rooted in morality—often, as the Bible makes clear, in unwillingness to work, in bad financial decisions or in broken family structures,” Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, told The Washington Post. “The Christian worldview is saying that all poverty is due to sin, though that doesn’t necessarily mean the sin of the person in poverty. In the Garden of Eden, there would have been no poverty. In a fallen world, there is poverty.”
http://www.newsweek.com/why-are-people-poor-lazy-646062
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Because if you WORK HARD...
Jeez I can't stand these people
