Want a higher salary? Go to church!

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: dethman
+9.1% - 10% tithe + God's Blessings Raining down on your life = LOTS OF MONEY

fixed.

 

[Medicine Bear]

So if I double the amount of time I go to church I get a bit more $. Hmmnn. Go to crutch, I mean church now about once every 5 years for a wedding on funeral. Hmmmm an extra 10% for going every 2.5 years. Hmmmm. Sorry, not worth it.

 

[ATLien247]

Well, seeing as you'd have to pay me to get me to go to church, that sounds about right... 😀

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attending religious services may enrich the soul, but it also fattens the wallet, according to research released on Tuesday.

"Doubling the frequency of attendance leads to a 9.1 percent increase in household income, or a rise of 5.5 percent as a fraction of the poverty scale," Jonathan Gruber of the economics department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology wrote in his study.

"Those with more faith may be less 'stressed out' about daily problems that impede success in the labor market and the marriage market, and therefore are more successful," Gruber wrote in the study, which was released by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Living in a community with complementary ethnic groups that share the same religion increases the frequency of going to a house of worship, he said in the paper titled "Religious Market Structure, Religious Participation, and Outcomes: Is Religion Good for You?"

Such visits correlate to higher levels of education and income, lower levels of welfare receipt and disability, higher levels of marriage and lower levels of divorce, the study said.

Gruber says he focused on non-Hispanic whites aged 25 or older because "there is very strong evidence of racial segregation in church-going, so that the density of Hispanics or non-whites in a religion in some area is not likely to be relevant for the religious participation of whites in that area."

Gruber divided the individuals into seven groups: Catholics, Jews, Liberal Protestants, Moderate Protestants, Conservative Protestants, other and none.

Corellation != Causation

80% of people that can read are right handed. Knowing how to read makes you right handed!

 

[Cheetah8799]

Originally posted by: diegoalcatraz
Minus the bible-mandated 10% tithe ....

HAHA! So true! Catholic churches are so bad for this. It's partially what drove my parents out of their old church. The whole publishing of people's donation amounts for the year with family names and everything. Nice comparison and all...

 

[Medicine Bear]

Originally posted by: Cheetah8799

Originally posted by: diegoalcatraz
Minus the bible-mandated 10% tithe ....

HAHA! So true! Catholic churches are so bad for this. It's partially what drove my parents out of their old church. The whole publishing of people's donation amounts for the year with family names and everything. Nice comparison and all...

That and you know....burning people at the stake, refusing to admit the Earth revolves around the sun, the whole Crusade thing, oh and the fact they are ruled by a giant spider.

 

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[spidey07]

This makes perfect sense. Most of the highly sucessful people I know attend.

These are the true leaders in the business world and community.

 

[PHiuR]

Originally posted by: Vic
Any activity that greatly increases a person's total socialization can increase their income. You're out there, in your community, talking to people, meeting people, having them meet you, etc. All in a positive atmosphere. It's not rocket science. If they did a study of people who do large amounts of secular social interaction I'm certain a similar result would be found.

/tread before it we need firetrucks in here

 

[Crucial]

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[BurnItDwn]

Originally posted by: dullard
Correlation is not causation.

Example:

Usually when I put on underwear, I am clean from a shower. Thus, according to the logic in that article, putting on underwear causes me to have freshly shampooed hair.

It depends, do you put shampoo in your underwear and wear it on your head?
If the answer is yes then the correlation is causation.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: diegoalcatraz
Minus the bible-mandated 10% tithe ....

"mandate" is a bit strong, at least in most sects.

*edit* and we should lock this thread...the people on this forum are too immature to discuss anything more controversial than graphics card choice (and sometimes not even that), even the older members who should know better.