You should deploy on a humanitarian mission!

[pearljammer]

Kasz216 said:

pearljammer said:

 

I haven't read any studies on this myself, but I would mostly attribute that to religious people having a communal purpose. A sense of community and peer pressure would be hugely contributing factors, I would imagine. It'd be interesting to see a study of faithful, non-church going people and faithful, church going people (I think we may have had this conversation before, maybe? Neither could find any results).

I would also imagine that the conservative-to-charity correlation to be weaker and mostly only even so closely correlated becuase of the correlation between conservatism and religiosity (as opposed to liberals).

I'm basing this all on presupposition, though. Let me know if I'm incorrect here. I'm not basing this on facts of any sort.

The conservative correlation is weaker... however still is significant from what i remember.

A really religious Conservative is still going to give more then a really religious liberal.

Afterall, studies that study both do make sure to weed out the correlation between the two before saying both are significant. Yes, of course.

Curious to think why there is a difference between an religious liberal and a conservative on average.

A few things that come immediately to mind are:

• A belief in that they support more governmental intervention (though not actual charity, but it may perhaps be a reason why)
• A larger percentage live in cities - being far less communal in nature to more rural areas. In effect, there would perhaps be less group pressure
• A matter of demographics. With liberals being younger, on average, and hence less financially stable to afford acts of charity monetarily
• They're jerks

Does that study (do you still have access to it?) posit any suggestions? Would definitely be an interesting read.