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I would think being financially wealthy would make it harder. Money can buy physical things but that's it. I wouldn't consider myself a hard core Christan person but in the Bible gives a good example of this. Jesus Christ himself was extremely poor. He was born with the world against him, and look what he became. Money can make things easier but the easier something is to achieve, often times it's just that easy to forget or not to know the real meaning behind it
There's a really good but weird movie to watch that uses this same idea. It's called Charley and the chocolate factory. The movie is definitely different but really good.