2006-07-24 07:52:43 · 19 answers · asked by Perfect Specimen 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Very. I live in an affluent area and when I walk into many of these homes I feel like I entered a church.
2006-07-24 07:58:42 · answer #1 · answered by Quantrill 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you are generalizing here. I mean I don't see anything wrong with having religious icons around one's house, but to confine it to the lower class is incorrect. I think it depends on the person, and, like someone else said, the age of that person. If a person has a more religious background (or are trying to look religious) they will have more icons than those who don't/aren't.
2006-07-24 07:59:19 · answer #2 · answered by fudd_son 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're probably more right than anyone knows. I think of it like this, generally speaking people who are poor feel like they need God more than people with a lot of material wealth. Because they feel like they need God more, they try to live their religion more. A year or so ago I saw a table that said of the major Christian religions in the world, Catholic was the largest with Mormon coming in second. I know there are many Catholics in South America and Africa where there are a lot of poor people. And the Catholics I know usually have a fair amount of crosses, crucifixes, statues of Mary and Saints and stuff in their homes, cars, and work areas. I'm not saying all Catholics are like this, but the ones I know are. Anyway, I forget how many Catholics this chart said there were, but at the time there were about 10 million Mormons, so I'm guessing there were probably 20 million Catholics. And with the majority of the worlds poor in Africa and Latin America and with those two areas largely Catholic and with Catholics usually having at least a couple of crucifixes in their home, I would say you are right.
2006-07-24 08:15:29 · answer #3 · answered by Tonya in TX - Duck 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think age might be a factor here, too.
The older one becomes, the more chances that person has of receiving religious items as gifts. The person may feel the need to display the items, if they were gifts from family.
2006-07-24 07:56:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am very poor money wise but rich in love and caring family I do not have religious items in my home the LORD asks us not to have any icons imeges of him he is a jealous GOD he wants us just to have faith and HE WILL PROVIDE ALL THAT IS NEEDED.
2006-07-24 07:58:28 · answer #5 · answered by Rebecca T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Live in North East LA. Im pretty poor and people call me an atheist.You are a religious rich showoff arent you.
2006-07-24 07:57:06 · answer #6 · answered by Maikeru 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well being poor sucks. And the more life sucks, the more the weak-minded need mental crutches and the opiate of the masses. So yeah, there's probably something to that on average.
2006-07-24 07:57:16 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm, i experience (even with the very incontrovertible certainty that I to stumble on your description a touch stupid). i'm degreed and recommended in clinical fields, have worked as a scientist, and function persevered my lifelong pastime in technology even however I now no longer artwork as a scientist. ought to I aspect out that it is now no longer even attainable to have a "clinical opinion" about claimed magical god concerns? Do I honestly ought to provide an reason for why, or do you already comprehend why? "For now, faith and technology more effective often than no longer agree..." i visit infrequently assume a more effective ridiculous announcement. And a more effective unnecessary one. What any faith does or does no longer "agree" with is irrelevant on the problem of technology; faith does no longer use the clinical procedure, or use records or information -- so their "critiques" don't have any relevance to technology by any ability. or perhaps as diverse non secular *human beings* might want to easily honestly "agree" with technology, religions maximum possibly do not. no longer that it concerns. It takes more effective than particularly dishonesty and retreat to "metaphor" to make any non secular textual content "agree" with technology. Peace.
2016-11-25 21:43:28 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats not true! I am not poor, and I have pics of Jesus on my wall. anyone living with Jesus in their heart is richer that a man with all the money in the world! Praise the Lord!!!
2006-07-24 07:56:57 · answer #9 · answered by Carol M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I believe you are wrong. It's more along the lines of the less educated the person is...
2006-07-24 07:57:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋