[R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions.
A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith.
The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that defection will cost them dear, that those who adopt other values will be persecuted or even killed.
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