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Tue 03 Mar 2009Will 10% more Protestants lead to less corruption?
Protestants are less inclined to commit a sin because they do not have the same faculty of achieving pardon as Catholics do
‘WE SHALL studiously avoid offending the religious susceptibilities of any portion of the community,” stated the inaugural editorial of The Irish Times in 1859. My apologies in advance then to Lawrence Edward Knox, the 22-year-old Protestant Englishman, who founded this newspaper.
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