This is a great read and explains the conclusion I came to over a year ago.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119576921737201375.html
According to salary.com, the average pastor makes $81,577 a year.
There’s a reason I haven’t selected a religion on my MySpace profile.
$81,577.
I was just reading the Wikipedia entry on Theodore Roosevelt and came across this interesting bit of info:
“While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisonsin, on October 14, 1912, a saloonkeeper named John Schrank failed in an assassination attempt on Roosevelt. Schrank did shoot the former President, but the bullet lodged in Roosevelt’s chest only after penetrating both his steel eyeglass case and passing through a thick (50 pages) single-folded copy of the speech he was carrying in his jacket. Roosevelt, as a very experienced hunter and anatomist, decide the fact he wasn’t coughing blood meant the bullet had not completely penetrated the chest wall to his lung (he was correct), and so declined suggestions he go to the hospital immediately. Instead, he delivered his scheduled speech with blood seeping into his shirt. He spoke for ninety minutes. His opening comments to the gathered crowd were, “I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.” Afterwards, doctors determined by probe and X-ray the bullet had traversed three inches (76 mm) of tissue and lodged in Roosevelt’s chest muscle but did not penetrate the pleura, and it would be more dangerous to attempt to remove the bullet than to leave it in place. Roosevelt carried it with him until he died.”
And for fans of Deadwood, Roosevelt was also friends with Seth Bullock.
