Prayers can crowd out donations for disaster victims

[DavidDvorkin]

A new study finds that people who prayed for hurricane victims before donating gave less than they would have otherwise: Because those who prayed believed that prayers improved the victims' well-being, they donated less.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191126092720.htm

[msongs]

1. oddly enuff prayers did not prevent the disasters in the first place nt

[DavidDvorkin]

2. That, too!