I think you may have missed my point which was that it’s not religion _per se_ which provides the pretext, but rather any appeal to our tribal nature (religion

I think you may have missed my point which was that it’s not religion _per se_ which provides the pretext, but rather any appeal to our tribal nature (religion is a favorite, but any sufficiently strong tribal boundary will suffice—racism, nationalism, secularism/theism, political ideology, etc).