Religion is a pretense for violence, not the original motivation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pape#Dying_to_Win http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pape

Religion is a pretense for violence, not the original motivation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pape#Dying_to_Win http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pape#Dying_to_Win Human power structures are what you should fear. A human in a powerful position will be motivated to silence voices that threaten that power.