I know better than to tar religion with those brushes, Joe. I think that anyone wanting to diss religion by referring to negative endeavours as having been carried out with "religious fervour", etc., ought to be made to write out the prefix "quasi-" a hundred times, then explain what they really think they mean. Gotta be consistent here. You know I don't like it when atheism is disparaged as "a religion". So I'm similarly not keen on those nefarious activities being characterised in similar vein. Another expression that has me extremely suspicious every time it's used is "in the name of religion", a term which, to me, almost never has a legitimate use. There are times when we all owe it to the argument to be very precise about what we are really thinking and what we really mean.