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DavidDvorkin

(19,892 posts) Sun Dec 1, 2019, 12:38 PM Dec 2019

Prayers can crowd out donations for disaster victims

A new study finds that people who prayed for hurricane victims before donating gave less than they would have otherwise: Because those who prayed believed that prayers improved the victims' well-being, they donated less.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191126092720.htm

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Prayers can crowd out donations for disaster victims (Original Post) DavidDvorkin Dec 2019 OP

oddly enuff prayers did not prevent the disasters in the first place nt msongs Dec 2019 #1

That, too! DavidDvorkin Dec 2019 #2

msongs

(70,178 posts)

1. oddly enuff prayers did not prevent the disasters in the first place nt

Reply to DavidDvorkin (Original post)

Sun Dec 1, 2019, 12:51 PM

Dec 2019

DavidDvorkin

(19,892 posts)

2. That, too!

Reply to msongs (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 1, 2019, 01:49 PM

Dec 2019

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