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Article: Thank God to be in America; Religious strife: The United States' Founding Fathers were men centuries ahead of their time
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- September 9, 2001
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Perhaps nothing can make the citizens of this country appreciate
their freedom of religious beliefs and practices more than the
pictures from strife-torn Northern Ireland that have graced
television screens around the world recently.
This country's varied religious background, which in many
instances was the direct result of the bigotry that reigned almost
everywhere else on this globe, has never been a greater blessing
than it appears to be today.
From the horrible images of little Catholic schoolgirls having to
be escorted to class through a rain of rocks, bottles and fire bombs
by police decked out in bulletproof vests and riot helmets, to the
daily death and destruction in the Middle ...