"...the sacrifice [in war] has to be for a purpose and it somehow has to be a just purpose. Religion then end up trying to give some meaning, justification, and moral purpose to death. Religion really can't be separated from war because it's always in a certain sense, I won't say necessarily drug into war, but it's very closely connected with it.

people continue to believe that they they're witnessing to the truth of their faith and that that the truth of their faith is a universal faith. But what they don't recognize easily, and that they don't want to recognize, is that they are at the same working or fighting and dying on behalf of their collective group, the well be the well-being of their collective group."