Yesterday morning the oldest Mormon church in Massachusetts, located in Cambridge, burned to the ground during services.
Firefighters were able to save many books and paintings. The congregation formed a relay line to relocate the items...
... to the Quaker meetinghouse across the street.
The Mormon congregation will be holding services in a nearby Episcopal church for the time being.
Let's see the "peaceful, tolerant" religion of Islam match that. Anywhere.
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Great post, RRA.
The local Jewish congregation holds their Holiday services in the local Mormon Church. The reason being, most all local Jews show up for the Holiday services, so that they overwhelm the small local Synagogue. And, the Mormon church is big enough to hold all the Jewish worshipers.
Before they moved to the Mormon church, they held their services at my church.
Christians and Jews get along pretty damned well here in the US. And, the various Christian denominations get along well.
I haven't seen a lot of inter-faith community between Buddhist, Hindus and Christians, but I certainly never see any animosity.
Truth is, most of the Buddhists and Hindus are relatively recent arrivals as immigrants. Most of the Buddhists and Hindus I have known live in the sorts of immigrant communities you see with first-generation immigrants.
Their children blend in well with everyone else at school.
My daughter has friends who are first and second generation Hiindu and Buddhist immigrants.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/05/fire_breaks_out_1.html
Is this the church that Romney attends in Boston?
It might be, Carlos, but I don't think so. There is a very large LDS temple in Belmont near Route 2. I think that is the one he attends -- if it were the Cambridge one they probably would have mentioned it in the news.
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