Religion
Protestant 25.2% (predominantly of the Moravian Church (Herrnhut)), Roman Catholic 22.8%, Hindu 27.4%, Muslim 19.6%, indigenous beliefs 5% and Judaism - a small active Jewish community.
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“The cloister and the observatory saint
Take comfort in about the same complaint.
So science and religion really meet.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Whitman is like a human document, or a wonderful treatise in human self revelation. It is neither art nor religion nor truth: Just a self revelation of a man who could not live, and so had to write himself.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“By 1879, seven churches of various denominations were holding services, which led the local Chronicle to comment, “All have but one religion and one God in common; it is the Crucified Carbonate.””
—Administration in the State of Colo, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)