Atheists have suggested that the drive behind religious belief is a fear of death, the cessation of being; this may very well be true. We will never know the truth of any religion (or lack of belief) until we die when we may find Jesus or Allah or the Light or something humans have never conceived of awaiting us or it will be like the finale of "Terminator 2" where the T-800 descends into the vat of molten steel and its CPU starts to fail, finally fading to black. There can be no absolute certainty this side of the veil between life and death and that, I believe, is the major cause for war between various religious factions.
Believer One worships his god his way; nearby another worships the same god but in a different manner and there is still another who worships an entirely different god. They are all happy and prosperous, perhaps more prosperous than Believer One. Doubt creeps in; perhaps the others have the right of it. How can I prove that my worship of my god is correct? asks Believer One. I know. If I fight these others surely my god will side with me and I will be victorious thereby proving that I am worshiping the true god in the correct manner.
It seems to me that when you examine history much past bloodshed has been rooted in that sort of uncertainty - why don't others worship my god and do so in the manner I do as it should be so obvious to all that I'm right? In order for all doubt to be eradicated, all non-believers of that god and the "incorrect" manner in which that god is worshiped, must be eradicated. I truly think all fundamentalists consciously or unconsciously feel that way and, if we give them any further leeway, the inevitable result will be disastrous for our planet. | 
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