Christians An Muslims Share Church

[Gromit]

// On a bitterly cold and snowing afternoon in Aberdeen, the doors of St John's Episcopal Church are open to hundreds of Muslim worshippers, arriving for daily prayers.

The familiar sounds of Christian hymns have been replaced with Islamic prayer in the chapel this Friday lunchtime and the church priest with the imam from the neighbouring mosque.

Muslims from the Syed Shah Mustafa Jame Masjid mosque next door share this church with Christian worshippers up to five times a day.

Church leaders believe this may be the only place in the country where Christian and Muslim worshippers pray side by side. //

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-21953899

The answer to our empty churches?

[boxtops]

That's really sensible, a good piece of news.

[jno]

one of your local churches had to close as congregations vanished, so is now in use full time as a mosque. (Others have been converted to blocks of flats with spires etc.) Fine by me, saves having to pull down perfectly good buildings

[jno]

*our* local churches, in fact, I don't know what yours are doing

[society]

Does this mean that people are leaving religion and becoming atheists?

[jno]

one good reason for being a believer is that your shoes are less likely to disappear

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/03/28/study-packages-sealed-with-atheist-tape-10-times-more-likely-to-disappear/

What impact this discovery will have on church attendance is hard to say.

[sandyRoe]

Isn't there a saying, 'Before you criticise someone walk a mile in their shoes'?
Maybe the American postal workers want to see how it feels to walk in Godless footwear.

[jno]

that could be it, sandyRoe. Perhaps after a mile they began to believe in evolution.