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It is a war between the partisans of the ancient civil, moral, and political order of Europe against a sect of fanatical and ambitious atheists which means to change them all.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke characterizes the war as a struggle between traditional values and radical atheism.
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