Procedural religion and bad roads

''Even after thirty years, I still think New Englanders sound funny, that they expect too much of the Red Sox, that their religiosity is procedural than deeply  felt, and that their highways were built with the conviction that automobiles could not possibly replace the horse-drawn buggy, and therefore need not be wide, permanent, or especially well-designed.''

-- C. Michael Curtis, in Contemporary New England Stories (1992)

The interior of the Arlington Street Church, in Boston, sometimes called "The Unitarian Vatican.'' The old line about the Unitarians was that they respected "The fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man and the neighborhood of Boston.''