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Superstition: a root cause of poverty
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
One of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals for 2015 is to reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day. This effort to uplift the human race meets a very practical need, especially in a country like Turkey, where I have lived for almost 40 years, and where 18.5 million people live in poverty.
Yet if money were the solution, it’s likely that poverty would have been eradicated long ago.
I like to pray about the roots of poverty, which could be described as mental, and include such thorny issues as superstition. Long-held attitudes, customs, and beliefs keep people fearful, ignorant, unwilling to change.
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