So if you have a higher income than those living around you, you're sinful? Does this "study" also consider charitable donations and volunteer time?
The researchers themselves admit that ...
The trouble with such a study, Vought and his friends fear, is that it's much more subjective and a bit more difficult to quantify all the good being done in American society.
It would also imply the only way to become non-sinful in such a situation would be to refuse or redistribute income until one is also living below the poverty line. If you help your poor neighbor learn to be self supporting, what happens to the sin index? If most are not yet self supporting, you’ve just made the neighborhood more sinful, not less.