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Thanks - much clearer now. Really strange post, in a pretty big day for weird posts.

Just seems to me that we Christians should be looking for greater unity in these days instead of looking for a fight amongst each other.

Funny story: my Great-Grandfather was a resolute and fiercely unreconstructed German Dunker Baptist in Iowa in the 1850s but while I was investigating records I discovered that he, a wealthy man, had donated the tract of land for the Roman Catholic church in town.

Early ecumenism, I guess.

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Actually, that was my Great-Great Grandfather...Jacob Samuel Pfautz

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Dunker or Dunkard ~ either way, they had a couple of concepts worth thinking about ~ the home as a holy place, and and "community of Christians".

Of course he donated the land for the Catholic church. He was a Christian and so were they. How could it be any other way.

I know of towns in South Dakota where there are so few people around they have traveling priests and ministers for a dozen different communes and they use the same building. Buddy of mine attended one such church as a Roman Catholic. It was decorated pretty much like a Russian Orthodox building, with a very Protestant steeple, and there huge stacks of song books in several languages.

All same thing!