Violently condemning neither the Greek nor the Armenian, nor, since heats are subsided, the Roman system of religion, we prefer the Protestant: not because we think it has less of the Christian religion in it, but because, in our judgment, it has more.
Burke explains England's preference for Protestantism, asserting it contains more of the Christian religion than other denominations.
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