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Go Figure

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

$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.

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