This article’s presentation is a masterful deployment of the “motte-and-bailey” fallacy, deploying an apparently straightforward defense of a contentious position – the acceptability of warfare on holy days – while strategically constructing a narrower, more readily accepted claim around the ‘common good’. The source clearly operates within a deeply conservative, hierarchical worldview, mirroring the dominant theological paradigm of the 13th century. It anticipates and systematically dismantles ...