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absolutize
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ab·so·lu·tize  (bs-l-tz)
tr.v. ab·so·lu·tized, ab·so·lu·tiz·ing, ab·so·lu·tiz·es
To make absolute; change into an absolute: absolutize a moral priniciple.

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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.
It is their thesis that a great national "monomyth" has been built up which today gives rise to a righteous militancy in order that what is perceived as "the evil" might be destroyed that "the good" prevail, At the present time, two world entities are vying with each other and "each side views its anger as blessed by the deity, which thereby absolutizes zeal and jihad and eliminates normal restraint.
 
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