Majority of Christians on Welfare

Majority of Christians are on welfare. If that sounds fishy to you, congratulations you have a functional brain. It is blatantly false. But according to David Barton's logic, or lack there of, it should be true. According to a recent statement by this notoriously reality challenged right wing wind bag the reason people are on welfare is they don't read the Bible.

"Wouldn't it be interesting to do a study between those that are on welfare and see how much and how often they read the Bible. You know, if Booker T. Washington is right that Christianity and reading the Bible increases your desires and therefore your ability for hard work; if we take that as an axiom, does that mean that the people who are getting government assistance spend nearly no time in the Bible, therefore have no desire, and therefore no ability for hard work? I could go a lot of places with this. I would love to see this proven out in some kind of sociological study, but it makes perfect sense."

Since there have been numerous studies and surveys that have all concluded that the majority of Christian's have not actually read the Bible it would make "perfect sense" that most of them should appear on the welfare rolls. But they don't. Hmm, maybe the Bible has nothing to do with it?

I'd be interested in seeing a study that looks at the correlation between reading the Bible and church attendance. It has been demonstrated a handful of times that those who are most literate when it comes to sacred texts tend to be the least religious. That's right, Atheists and Agnostics tend to score the best out of any demographic when it comes to religious literacy. Think about what that might say about faith.