You go to your church; I'll go to mine
A few years ago, I was talking with a man who raised an interesting question: “There’s only one God, why do we need so many different churches?”
I let that one slide right by because I like to limit my controversial discussions to politics, for better or worse. But I was curious as to why he belonged to the church he did and not another one of the some 200 Christian denominations in America. I didn’t raise that point, either.
Religion is a serious topic in America and has been ever since the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock in their quest to escape religious persecution in England. They may have escaped intolerance directed at their own beliefs, but they managed to develop a different type of religious intolerance of their own.
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