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Some chilling numbers for you:
* 93 -- percent of American Christians who believe reading the Bible is important
* 41 -- percent of American Christians who claim to read their Bible at least once a week
* 17 -- percent of American Christians who claim to read their Bible every day
* 89 -- percent of Christians who believe prayer is critical to their faith
* 55 -- percent of Christians who claim to pray at least once a week
* 31 -- percent of Christians who claim to pray every day
* 23 -- percent of evangelicals who attended at least one Christian music concert at some time over the past eighteen months
* 45 -- percent of evangelicals who admitted to having pirated mp3s on their computer
* 87 -- percent of Christians who recognize the importance of coming to church every week
* 57 -- percent of Christians who admitted to having fallen asleep at least once during a Sunday morning sermon

* 100 -- percent of the statistics above that I completely made up
* 85 -- percent of the above made-up statistics that are within actual results, probably (this statistic, too, is made up)
* 90 -- percent of the above made-up statistics that were they true probably wouldn't surprise us
* 29 -- percent of me that is sad that is true