Quote Originally Posted by thir View Post
Yes, but education and prosperity hangs together. Poor people often do not get educated.
This is true, and in many places around the world, those poor who are educated are taught by religious missionaries. One of the reasons why religious organizations in the US are losing members is because of state-run education, which cannot, by law, include religious instruction. And with the law requiring all children to be educated into high school, the failures of religious instruction are being laid bare. Young people are learning that those "mysteries of the gods" they have been taught as children are little more than wishful thinking, warped psychology and belief in magic.