Thursday, December 8, 2011

Why do we need another place of worship if there is already one there?


One of the arguments against the Sufi mosque near Ground Zero was that there was already a Salafi mosque in the basement of one of the nearby buildings.  This is an old argument. I found this quote in one of my Baptist history books.

"I [Fristoe]  knew the General Court to refuse a license for a Baptist meeting-house in the county of Richmond, because there was a Presbyterian meeting-house already in the county, although the Act of Toleration considered them distinct societies." ~ 1772

William Fristoe "History of the Ketocton Baptist Association" 1766-1808 pg 73[1]

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