Abstract
Politics separated from religion in this extended and qualified sense-that all the crusaders, religious and secular alike, are denied the sword, but allowed to fly their banners-is an open-ended conflict over interests and values among people who understand that they have to coexist with one another. Both the conflict and the coexistence are permanent conditions, which need to be protected from the temptations of eternity. We have to set ourselves against the closure that God's name, again and again, has licensed-but also against every other kind of closure, licensed by any of the secular substitutes for God's name. Only someone who has never experienced, or who can't imagine experiencing, the dangers of politics gone bad, could possibly complain about that.
Recommended Citation
Walzer, Michael
(1999)
"Drawing the Line: Religion and Politics,"
Utah Law Review: Vol. 1999:
No.
3, Article 1.
Available at:
https://dc.law.utah.edu/ulr/vol1999/iss3/1