What is the impact...?

In my community they hold food drives for the needy, toy drives at Christmas, sponsor families at Christmas(toys, dinner, extra food and usually gift cards for the parents), sponsor families at Thanksgiving with food, do random acts of kindness and most of them have food banks and help with utility costs and sometimes medicine costs. There is no negativity regarding religion at all in my community.

I wouldn't say there's an 'impact,' other than a good mix of groups and religions. It's a pretty diverse area in which I live.

In the few blocks around the house where I grew up, there were predominantly Jewish and Christian neighbors. Wasn't aware until I was in high school that there was any tension among religions. Our neighborhood was very tight that way (and many of us who grew up together remain so).

The truth of the matter is we do not turn to religion so that we can be morally upright people. We can be that way without religion, we all have the knowledge of what is right and wrong deep within us, its innate - we are born with it. I think we turn to religion for answers. Answers to who are we really, what are we here for, where am I coming FROM and where am I going TO. We turn to religion because we want help, help from our enemies, help from ourselves, help in securing a bright future. We turn to religion because at some point in our live we feel so lost and so all alone, and we just need to open up to someone, and give it all to Him. And sometimes we turn to religion because we want to just express gratitude for those things that make us smile in ourlives. But all in all I would say its all about meaning.

I live in a mostly Anglo and Asian middle class community in which a wide variety of both secular and religious traditions flourish quite peacefully.

They don't bother me and I don't mess with them respectively.

There are many churches in my area and the impact they have is to instill good moral values on the people who live in my community.

Believers in the one, true, living God are persecuted, just as Jesus said they would be.