This is a weird article about some bizarro report the Federal Reserve bank put out connecting belief in Hell with economic growth.

“In countries where large percentages of the population believe in hell, there seems to be less corruption and a higher standard of living,” the St. Louis Fed said in its July quarterly review.

Seems fucking weird to me that they’d be doing a study on this. The full text of the Fed report can be found at their website. If you look at their column of figures, the conclusions they are drawing just don’t add up at all. Turkey is number one, in 85% belief in hell, with a per capita income of only 5,890, whereas the US is second at 71% belief, but a per capita of 34,320. And there are a whole gaggle of countries in the 20-30% range with about 20-30,000 as their income. There are pretty much no clear definable trends in these figures.