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If the government picked up the slack, would America become less religious?

Churches provide services where the government does not. I read a journal that said "Recent empirical research has demonstrated that countries with higher levels of religiosity are characterized by greater income inequality."

If we were to close some of the gap with income inequality- and the government provided more services to people- what would be the effect on churches and religion?

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#religiosity #government #inequality #religious #religion
silvereyes 8 Mar 19
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My experience with churches has been that most of them do very little that is not in their own self interest. I think the religious group would remain about the same. I would add that it is my belief that the Xain religion is in decline.

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With little thought, no research of my own and not looking at the link, id say that sounds good to me. Lol. Ill be saving the link for later, though, and may come back to add something more constructive xP

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