Business and Industry and Science are in lock step with the organized religions, "Industrial religions" as they're called in environmental philosophy circles.

"Autochthonous" religions are smaller, local, and based on the landscape from which they arose. Most of those have been severely altered or wiped out by the Industrial religions.

Big or small, many religions create and Us vs Them binary, making war easily justifiable. Turn Them into an Object and then you can justify a lot of things. The Catholic Pope has conducted war against his own folks when he thought they were going to make The Church obsolete (the Gnostics). Many other religions have similar factions (such as Islam, with the Taliban, etc.).

Sometimes using the crutch of religion as a way to deal with personal problems means swallowing the whole package. A friend of mine in high school, whose family life was as turbulent as any I've ever seen, with numerous divorces, marriages, step- and half-brothers and sisters, finally ended up in the Jehovah's Witnesses. For her it was the first stable environment she'd been in in years. We stopped being friends because she couldn't turn off the preaching, so there was a tradeoff.

SRS