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To: Kolokotronis

Of course, you know Just War theory has its origin in St. Augustine. It is the application of the right to self-defense to a societal scale.

35 posted on 12/28/2007 7:50:32 PM PST by Pyro7480 ("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)

To: Pyro7480

"Of course, you know Just War theory has its origin in St. Augustine."

Yup; you understand that giving the theory an Augustinian pedigree doesn't help it with the Orthodox. Orthodoxy ALWAYS holds that war is "αμαρτια"!

36 posted on 12/28/2007 7:53:09 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)

To: Pyro7480; Kolokotronis

"Of course, you know Just War theory has its origin in St. Augustine."

Aquinas.

42 posted on 12/28/2007 8:16:48 PM PST by spunkets ("Freedom is about authority", Rudy Giuliani, gun grabber)

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