Religious leaders from every denomination imaginable was invited to the event. (Mormons notably absent, Masons were probably still pissed about them gyping their rituals). The merging of the religions of the east with those of the west. This was the beginning of something world…
The congress of world religions was supposed to represent the bonding of east and west, the conjoining of opposites in a productive way, the birth of the idea that the whole world could bond in brotherhood.
108 years to the day after the first congress of world religions, September 11, 1893, two planes would come from the religious east, destroying the World Trade Center.
The joining of east and west in fraternal progress, would be shattered by the supposed religious animosity of an eastern faith.
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