Material World Cursed by God
There are many countries and many peoples in the world. But wealthy people and super-wealthy people are not distributed evenly, equally, or fairly.
According to Credit Suisse Group, the US is the runaway leader in the statistics on wealthy and super-wealthy classes.
Accordingly, sins and crimes caused by material wealth and financial enrichment must be seen in a concentrated manner in the US.
For advanced countries listed in the above figures, each number of victims of crimes per its population (in 2005) is as follows:
Country Number of Criminal Victims per Population (%)
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UK.................21.0
US.................17.5
Canada..........17.2
Australia........16.3
Germany........13.1
Italy...............12.6
France............12.0
JAPAN...............9.9
(Source: UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute and UN Office on Drugs and Crime)
The general impression is that wealth in the US seems to be linked to the Anglo-Saxon network, covering the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia. Evil activities and aspects of these countries look like resulting in huge accumulation of wealth in the US. I mean that without this Anglo-Saxon network the US cannot probably possess such a huge amount of wealth.
Compared with these traditionally Anglo-Saxon countries, the continental European countries, especially Romance-language speaking countries, look less radical in sacrificing others in the process of accumulating wealth. But, Germany, a kind of successor of Germanic people, looks less modest than Italy and France influenced by Roman Empire heritage.
And Japan is far more peaceful than other advance countries with great wealth.
If money is an enemy of mankind and hence wealth is an enemy of God, the US is predominantly the country with the largest number of sinful rich men. And the Anglo-Saxon predominant countries are also so sinful. Therefore the current globalization of economy, business, culture, and social systems led by the US and other Anglo-Saxon predominant countries is so sinful and dangerous.
However there is another interesting statistics:
Country The Ratio (%) of Underground Economy to GDP (2007)
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Russia...............52.00
Brazil.................43.00
S. Korea.............29.40
Italy....................27.40
Germany............16.70
Canada...............16.60
France................15.70
Australia.............15.00
China...................14.30
UK.......................13.20
JAPAN.................12.10
US..........................9.00
(Source: The World Bank)
Remarkably, the US looks relatively the most honest country, followed by Japan, among major countries in making its economy transparent as much as possible.
The only hope of our material world, probably, being cursed by God might be this honesty of the US.
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Joh 9:3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.