[ansel12]

I believe that this is the end result of allowing young men in the sixties and seventies who could not gain admittance to a technical graduate school flocking into seminaries to avoid the draft.

The draft was continuous from 1940 through 1973, what data do you have about incompetents flooding into seminaries, to avoid the draft?

[Eva]

Oh, it happened, believe me. I met one, preaching at a charismatic church in Canada. He left the country right after declaring his conscientious objector status.

Evidently, there was an anti-war activist professor at a Western Washingon University that gave instruction to young draft dodgers on how to do it. The instruction involved teaching them to work themselves into a frenzy and speak in tongues. The preacher admitted this, but claimed that his speaking in tongues was real, even though he wasn’t even a Christian before receiving this “gift”.

[ricmc2175]

Analysis of seminary enrollments at Schools of Theology provides the basis for the contention by the Association of Theological Schools and personal interviews with United Methodist clergy and bishops from 1972 to 1983.