Well I was thinking that religion is a important issue in matters of conceptions of the world. It is not a coincidence that most of the poorest countries are those with a heavy commitment with religion (not spirituality).
I´ll give you an example: I was talking to an english friend about the bible phrase "It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God" (Matthew 19:24) and I was surprised to find that he didn´t know about it, because almost every Catholic person in central an south America knows it.
The idea of not going to heaven because you are rich has deep roots amongst Mexican people and that is, in part, a result of this biblical phrase.
On the Net I found a text trying to explain this quote in a different way.
Can Rich People go to Heaven?< Back to Sacred Scripture in Life
The Bible seems to imply that rich people cannot go to Heaven - what is the meaning of this?
In Heaven and Hell it states: "The belief tha the poor enter heaven easily and the rich with difficulty comes from not understanding the Word where the rich and the poor are mentioned. The Lord said in Matthew 19:24: It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
By the rich are meant the rich in both a natural sense and a spiritual sense. In the natural sense the rich are those who have an abundance of riches and set their heart upon them, but in the spiritual sense they are those who have an abundance of cognitions and knowledges, which are spiritual riches, and who desire by means of these to introduce themselves into the things of heaven and the Church from their own intelligence."
