No more Detect Good. Detect Holy instead.

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Now Good COULD take your ability to do BEFORE you do it, but then that is punishing people for thoughtcrime. Thus either good Itself is hypocritically randomly choosing paladins to take its powers away from unless they maintain good thoughts at all times which would lead to willful blindness and self deception, or Good is hypocritically allowing innocents to die due to its own energies touching then punishing the paladins responsible for channeling itself to make sure innocent people die.

Skip the Evil for a moment. Good energy is capable of killing Neutral people.

A Holy Word cast by an 11th level caster will kill 1st level Neutral people. The majority of people will be 1st level. A cleric of a Good deity, or of the "cosmic force of Good", using Holy Word in a crowded city, will kill innocents, and will likely Fall and lose their powers.

Good "taking away the power after it's been used to kill" is really no different from a cop having his gun taken away after he's shot someone innocent .

It's the right thing to do. If the "cosmic force of Good" is incapable of acting before a person abuses the use of its power, only after, no "hypocrisy" is needed.