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Recent stats on gifts to Pat Robertson, church attenders' view on the Iraq war, and mainline seminarians.

Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 5/01/2006 12:00AM

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$160 million	62%	20%
Gifts to Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network from March 2004 to March 2005.	Americans who never go to church who say the Iraq war was a mistake.	Growth in mainline divinity school enrollment from 1990 to 2004.
21%	44%	30%
Increase this represents in donations over the previous year.	Americans who attend church weekly who agree.	United Methodist seminary grads who don't plan to enter pastoral ministry.

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Sources: The Virginian-Pilot, Gallup/The Washington Times, The New York Times.

Weblog commented on the increase in giving to Pat Robertson.

May 2006, Vol. 50, No. 5

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