48 percent of Americans pray every day. Here's what they pray for. [View all]

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The reports also shows a class divide in prayer habits, as Christianity Today reports:

One-quarter of respondents with an annual income higher than $150,000 pray for "bad things to happen to bad people," while only around 8 percent of respondents making less than $50,000 said they would do so. And nearly one in five Americans with incomes over $150,000 have prayed for someone to get fired; in contrast, only 1 in 20 Americans who make between $75,000 and $149,000 and only one in 100

Americans who make less than $30,000 say they have prayed the same.

These findings seem to support the theory that an "empathy gap" exists between the rich and the poor.


MORE:
http://www.vox.com/2014/10/6/6918427/lots-of-americans-pray-heres-what-they-pray-for-study
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/10/5-percent-religious-americans-routinely-try-fool-god