Poor people always need an incentive, spiritual reasons not to fall into depression, submission of the system, and that these deviate from social ethical standards.
It is demonstrated that the poorest countries of the world tend to congregate to a religious faith, together with the diverse spiritual activities that are unleashed in greater attention when the population lives under a permanent humanitarian crisis. Their precarious situation encourages them to seek and believe in the existence of social and economic well-being, in order to generate harmony among the inhabitants and have a common good. Spiritual monitoring, as meaning for the poor is the absence of the material world, away from the tangible, invalidity of superficial things, in exchange for the personal valuation and moral enrichment that all humans need to adapt to the universal establishment of social rules .
These are the most religious countries in the world
https://hipertextual.com/2016/01/paises-mas-religiosos-del-mundo
In this chart, it encompasses and makes comparisons in conjunction with developed and developing countries. Of course, the top 10 of those who focus on religion as an inherent importance are poor countries.
If you analyze in detail the problems that these countries are carrying, they live under a world of violence, apologies to hatred, injustice, corruption, their rate of human development is low, and other calamities that they face daily. The response to these apogee is religion, as a way of trying to sub bring and make understand these martyrdoms as an accepted and normal condition, which have their purpose dictated. It is the metaphysical entity ‘God’, which has always intervened in the history of man and nature.
“Religion is the opium of the peoples” K. Marx.
The author will not have said it because he is not sane, he simply touches on the reality of the populations and individual angles that, instead of directly facing the problems of their places, only forget, refuse social struggles and accept their conformity with the praise the deities outside the real world that operate in their minds.
For the people in good live and following a religion:
It should be noted that the intervention of education and social culture that has been practiced in the region influences these sectors. The parameters established by each religion (Mostly Christian or Islamic) with respect to those that dictate the family order (Patriarchy, polygamy), behavioral (Good Samaritan, Diet Food, Fasting: actions that are concrete answers before a moment) are human values. They are inculcated as an established monitoring framework and stick to this as a tradition.
Without ruling out other points that work in self-help, reference to personal help centers that come to specific problems afflicting a person, such as places for drug rehabilitation, alcohol, psychological problems, all these are anywhere in the world , poor or rich. However, these centers never separate spiritual feelings as a cure for problems, that is why their solution is religion.