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One in Five Americans Thinks God Controls the Stock Market
According to USA Today, "About one in five Americans combine a view of God as actively engaged in daily workings of the world with an economic conservative view that opposes government regulation and champions the free market as a matter of faith." "They say the invisible hand of the free market is really God at work," sociologist Paul Froese, co-author of the just-released Baylor Religion Survey [PDF], tells the paper. "They think the economy works because God wants it to work. It's a new religious economic idealism." Froese says this group believes the Bible is the "ultimate truth in the world, and new economic ... (full story)
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