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Poorer Americans
most likely to
count financial
blessings, recent
study shows
NEW YORK (AP) - Jesus said
no one can serve the dual mas
ters of God and money, but he
has not convinced a majority of
well-off Americans.
In a national survey on faith
and finances, nearly two-thirds
of lower-income Americans
agreed with Jesus’ admonition,
but less than half of the respon
dents earning more than
$50,000 agreed.
Poorer Americans were most
likely to count their financial
blessings, ask God for guidance
on financial affairs and believe
their financial situation is a re
flection of God’s regard for them.
The findings show that while
church leaders are often stereo
typed as being preoccupied with
money, in practice many clergy
are uncomfortable with the topic
and avoid it, said a leading re
searcher on religious giving.
“I think basically, in our soci
ety, the church has not provided
a constructive agenda, or evens
theological context, for money,"
said Sylvia Ronsvalle of the
Champaign, Ill.-based research
organization empty tomb inc.
“People don’t know what a bibli
cal approach to money is.”
A random sample of 1,000
people were interviewed by
telephone in the faith and mon
ey survey conducted last fall by
Louis Harris & Associates for
the Minneapolis-based Luther
an Brotherhood, a nonprofit in
surance and financial services
company. The survey had a
margin of error of plus or mi
nus three points.
Louise Thoreson, vice presi
dent of the Brotherhood’s char
itable programs, said the sur
vey showed faith influences the
way many Americans approach
their finances.
“In the daily grind of money
management, many people both
seek God’s guidance and thank
God for their financial well be
ing,” she said.
The poll found 81 percent of
Americans, including 86 percent
with incomes of $25,000 and
less, have thanked God for their
financial well being.
Seventy percent of the re
spondents, including three-quar
ters of those in the lowest in
come group, said their own fi
nancial situation reflected Gods
regard for them either a great
deal or somewhat.
The positive response does
not mean lower-income people
think God holds them in low re
gard, Thoreson said.
Rather, she said, “I think
they do feel God is taking care of
them, and they are grateful.”
In findings resonant of Scrip
tural passages, a substantial
gulf emerged between richer
and poorer Americans in their
attitudes toward money.
Numerous passages in the
Bible warn against placing too
much emphasis on possessions.
In a famous saying in the
Gospel of Mark, at the end of a
parable in which a rich man re
jects the faith rather than give
his money to the poor, Jesus
says “it is easier for a camel to
go through the eye of a needle
than for someone who is rich to
enter the kingdom of God.”
In the Gospels of Luke and
Matthew, Jesus says pointedly
that no one can serve two mas
ters: “You cannot serve God
and wealth.”
In response to a survey
question framed in the biblical
language, 65 percent of both
the lower-income and middle-
income respondents agreed
with the statement “You can
not serve both God and mon
ey.” Forty-seven percent of the
respondents earning more than
$50,000 agreed, while 48 per
cent disagreed.
More than three-quarters of
the lower-income respondents
also agreed that the love of
money is the root of all evil
Half of the high-income respon
dents disagreed.
Who has prayed for guidance
in how to manage their fi
nances? Sixty percent of people
with incomes of $25,000 or less,
compared to 40 percent of people
making more than $50,000, ac
cording to the survey.
Ronsvalle said the survey re
sults show that despite some
2,000 biblical verses about the
relationships between people
and possessions, many clergy
“have abandoned their members
to a secular mindset about a
very important topic.”
“One thing we have heard
from various individuals is that
they wished the church talked
more about money, and helped
them make sense of it,” she said.
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