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lazyCHRISTIANITY BREEDS POVERTY
There appears to be a clear correlation between christian population and the level of poverty of a nation. It looks like that the Christianity is keeping the people poor in the developing world. It can be said that the higher the percentage of christians, higher is the percentage of the population below poverty line. An army of priests, nuns and other religious personnel of christianity are literally have to be fed by the working class. It is time to send back these non productive parasites of society back to the society as workers. Following list gives the name of the nation, its christian population and the percentage of population below the poverty line.
Boliva
Christians 100%,
Population below poverty line: 64%
Honduras
Christians 100%,
Population below poverty line: 53%
Panama
Christians 100%,
Population below poverty line: 37%
Venuzula
Christians 98%,
Population below poverty line: 47%
Haiti
Christians 96%,
Population below poverty line: 80%
Equador
Christians 95%,
Population below poverty line: 45%
Mexico
Christians 95%,
Population below poverty line: 40%
Argentina
Christians 94%
Population below poverty line: 44.3%
Rwanda
Christians 93.5%,
Population below poverty line: 60%
East Timor
Christians 93%,
Population below poverty line: 42%
Phillipines
Christians 92.5%,
Population below poverty line: 40%
Guatemala
Christians 90%, check
Population below poverty line: 75%
Namibia
Christians 90%,
Population below poverty line: 50%
Columbia
Christians 90%,
Population below poverty line: 55%
El Salvador
Christians 83%,
Population below poverty line: 36.1%
Peru
Christians 83%,
Population below poverty line: 54%
South Africa
Christians 79.7%,
Population below poverty line: 50%
Zambia
Christians 75%,
Population below poverty line: 86%
Zimbabwe
Christians 75%,
Population below poverty line: 70%
Botswana
Christian 71.6%,
Population below poverty line: 47%
Burundi
Christian 67%
Population below poverty line: 68%
Poverty level from CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005. For USA the population below povery line is 12% , but for African Americans this figure rises to around 26% and for Hispanics it is around 25.6%. One can compare these figures with Population below poverty line for India which is 25% and the christian population is 2.3%.
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