Catholicism v. Protestantism?

Why Protestant countries are richer and more developed than Catholic ones?

dint waste your time trying to categorize a country as religion specific, just because the majority of the population follows one belief doesn't mean everyone there does....

Why are secular countries richer and more developed than both?

Thats because the Pope and all the pope lets enjoy all the GOLD in Rome!

One has to be. Doesn't necessarily mean anything. What if it was the other way around? Sometimes nothing can be concluded by statistics. What if short people made more money than tall people? Doesn't mean tall people are doing anything wrong, it just means it turned out that way. Do you get what I'm saying? The country of Brunei has a lot of money. Does that mean people with black hair who live in hot places make more money? Do you get what I'm saying?

Traditional Catholic countries are statistically on par with traditional Protestant countries in terms of economic development. For example, counties such as Canada, the U.S., England, and Austrailia are considered Protestant nations and are all economic powerhouses, but so are Ireland, France, Germany and Italy, all traditional Catholic nations.

The truth is, in the modern era, all the countries listed above have historically been known as either Caholic or Protestant but really, over the past 2 centuries or so, all of them could more accurately be described as secular. The populations of most developed nations do not take religion seriously, whether it be Catholicism or a Protestant faith.

because you're generalizing. no one country is completely catholic or protestant.

I'm not sure where you got that information from, or which country you live in.

I'm an Aussie, and have noticed that the Catholic churches seem to be built on some of the best real estate!

I guess that I don't have an answer for that one.

Personally, I'm an Anabaptist so Catholicism vs Protestantism doesn't directly affect me so to speak.

Blessings, Gypsy Queen

It doesn't matter about the material richness of a country, tied to their Christian denomination that supposedly everybody in that country follows. (and America is not a "Christian" nation anymore). What -really- matters is the condition of the heart, a person's relationship with God.

Does not have so much to do with religion so much as the culture of the two main imperial countries that colonized most of the world.

Spain used their colonies mostly as a place to exploit wealth out of. And Spain happened to be Catholic.

England developed their colonies to be trading partners. They too wanted to use their colonies to gain wealth but it was a different approach that left the colony in a better financial political and financial position went it became an independent country. And England happened to be Protestant

Very brief, Very over simplified, but basically true.
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