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In an age when we are seeking cultural intelligence in order to understand the indigenous society and the insurgent ideology, we seem to minimalize one of the most important factors of life--religion.
The moral theology being used in this instance by Father Prieur is simply man's attempt to rationalize, and thereby to seemingly minimalize, the evil we are committing.
So to suggest in the early going of grief that the dead body is "just" anything rings as tinny in its attempt to minimalize as it would if we were to say that it was "just" a bad hair day when the girl went bald from her chemotherapy.
 
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