Freedom Of Religion's Influence On American Culture

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American culture is influenced with a variety of different and controversial ways that impact our daily lives. Easily, one benefit that certainly helps this country’s freedom nature has to be the freedom of religion. Without a doubt, the history of mankind has been through countless wars among all types of people. Religion has been a cause of war in the past and still is, to this day, with the likes of Islamic terrorist attacks. For example, the 9/11 attacks were caused by religious beliefs and devastated the US morally. If every country had the freedom of religion, then we wouldn’t see all that many terrorist take others lives because their god told them to do so. Something that is quite flawed and corrupt here in the United States, however,

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