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The Constitutional clergy are not the ministers of any religion: they are the agents and instruments of this horrible conspiracy against all morals.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke criticizes the Constitutional clergy as being complicit in a moral conspiracy rather than serving true religious interests.
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