The most highly Protestant countries are the most prosperous in the world.
The most highly Catholic countries are among the most impoverished.
I suppose your comment ties in well with the "needy are not our brethren" theme.
The evidence shows that the Church evangelized the "least of these". That's the reason for disparity in wealth.
The most highly Catholic countries are among the most impoverished.
It depends how you determine prosperity.
Luxembourg is almost 90% Catholic and has the highest per capita GDP in the world (granted it has a very small population).
Ireland is also very prosperous (though they are having recent problems) and they are majority Catholic.
The largest groups in the Netherlands and Austria are Catholic.
In terms of prosperity, the most prosperous countries in the world are the US, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and the western European countries. Some of them have majority Protestant populations, some Catholic and some neither.
Certainly, there are some very poor nations that were colonized by the Spanish and Portuguese (we'll leave France out of it because the French government went secular centuries before the rest of the world), but there are also very poor nations colonized by the British and Dutch.
False. Neither the IMF nor the CIA numbers support that. The lowest per capita incomes are in predominantly Islamic and Animist countries and only three of the top ten are majority Protestant.