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| The power of the holy to
discredit religion's claims of divine status becomes muted as
religion absolutizes its institutional mediations and justifies its
violent self-monitoring. "The church," he notes,
"does not absolutize life outside the womb," as exemplified by
the just war tradition, which accepts the killing of enemy combatants
along with the deaths of innocent civilians as collateral damage; it has
long accepted the right of a person to kill if necessary in
self-defense, and until the past century it was supportive of capital
punishment. Because it does not absolutize politics, the doctrine of the two
cities recognizes that there are a wide variety of regimes that can
promote civic virtue and preserve what Augustine called the
"tranquility of order. |
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