It is now possible for religious Holy Men to be so smart as to devise apocalyptic weapons and still believe using them will please their gods. This in order to bring on the Messiah to pass judgment upon what's left of Earth. The secular world believes these men and their fatalistic beliefs as to be insane. The religious believe those who hold these beliefs are Men of perfect faith.

Christian vs Muslim violence in Egypt~today. Just a few extremists?
In an attempt to square bigoted ancient religious beliefs with modernity, the religious, even on Newsvine, speak in a form barley recognizable as any sort of religion. Which may suggests with some luck, a hasty entry into the mass grave of mytholgy.
Peter Kuran's "Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie" Castle Bravo
What will we do if an Islamist regime, which grows dewy-eyed at the mere mention of paradise, ever acquires long-range nuclear weaponry? Much of the world's population could be annihilated on account of religious ideas that belong on the same shelf with Batman ~ Sam Harris



