The Middle East reminds us that there is nothing so unholy as a holy war. Europe learnt this in the 17th century. Confessional competition between Catholicism and Protestantism fused with temporal rivalry to provoke the Thirty Years’ War among the continent’s leading powers.
中東局勢提醒我們:沒有什麼比聖戰更加邪惡。歐洲曾在17世紀領教過這一點。當時,天主教和新教之間的宗教角力與世俗對抗糾纏在一起,使歐洲大陸領先強國之間爆發了一場曠日持久的戰爭——「三十年戰爭」(Thirty Years' War)。
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