Is there a relationship between income, education, and religious affiliations?

Question

Is there a relationship between income, education, and religious affiliations? What do you this is the independent variable? Which is the one of the listed above is the dependent variable?

Answer 1

>This is seeming to be saying that a person who is more educated is less likely to be religious (or spiritual). God and Science are not mutually exclusive subjects.



I happen to have three degress and I strongly believe in both science (I am a scientist) and in God. I am a spiritualist because I don't have a specific relgion, although I was brought up a Christian - but my current belief system is ALL of the major religions and some minor ones and metaphysics and some other things as well. I am fairly well off financially too but that has nothing to do with how I see the universe, myself or a supreme being in it. Money doesn't have anything to do with what you believe - it's just that after you DO have an education, you are able to critically examine things in a way that you cannot really do without that education. Less well off persons than myself may still be able to teach themselves critical thinking. Nobody in science agrees lockstep with each other - each scientist is an independent thinker and observer - you make a mistake in thinking that we cannot also include God in our lives. I see all physical things as a result of God's involvement in the universe, not as the sterile absence of any God at all. I don't think it is the end when I die.

Answer 2

No of course there are rich Christians and poor Christians and educated Christan. All have to be called of God so there is none that comes to God on his own. Those who are poor come the same way as any other. Of course there are poor who say they are Christians but may not be because they can get taken care of by the church. It looks like the poor are Christians because they need a churtch.

Answer 3

Yes. The more educated you are, the less religious you're likely to be.

Answer 4

Poor and dumb people are more likely to be religious than wealthy and intelligent people. Learning is the enemy of religion, and knowledge often leads to success.

Answer 5

not at all. God's love is a free gift to all who will accept it.