This religious war is not a controversy between sect and sect, as formerly, but a war against all sects and all religions.
Edmund Burke: “This religious war is not a controversy between sect and sect, as formerly, but a war against all sects and all…”
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Burke asserts that the current religious conflict is a war against all religions, not just sectarian disputes.
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