HMW
"... religious motivation for action which has been identified by military analysts as perhaps the most powerful motivation for fighting since an unshakable-verging-on-fanatic perception of 'right and wrong' is necessary to resort to impersonal violence."
gee those analysts might be on to something
Juan de Onate, the Cathar genocide by Vatican troops ... in re the latter, they were
really convinced God had their back, that's where the "troops" were told to just kill them all and let God sort out the faithful
or, the pope was just cynical, real busy, and on a schedule

Everything in nature has a power in it.
-Thomas Banyacya