Religion & Spirituality

Would you say social convention is counter to religious ideas at times?

When I was in school there was a really nice guy who went to our school to give a talk about his life.

He said when he was a college student, he was so religious that he spent tens of thousands of dollars travelling to India to share the gospel with strangers and he paid for the trip himself.

Later, he became an engineer and left for a province far away to chase the big money. He called his friends up on the phone who studied engineering with him and he said that now that he was rich, he found being religious was a lot harder than it used to be and his friends who were also rich said the same thing, that now that they were rich, being religious was way harder than it used to be.

I remember telling him both my parents were engineers and I studied humanities and he looked like he felt sorry for me and asked me why I didn't study engineering like my parents, I would have made more money than the career I chose to study in university.

So if you believe that being rich makes it more difficult to live a religious lifestyle, why would you feel sorry for somebody who studied religion instead of a career that routinely has higher pay rates then those in religious careers?

I am not judging the guy from school, I think 99.9% of people would've chosen the big money over the religious career, but is is unusual to you that social convention does not consider the cost of having big money, only considering the benefits of being rich?

Would you say social convention is counter to religious ideas at times?
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