"Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one person for the joy he receives from the virtues of another". -Ayn Rand
Collective Religious Rituals Spur Support For Suicide Attacks
Recent studies by Ginges, Hansen and Norenzayan demonstrate that, unlike what was previously thought, religious devotion is far less predictable of support for parochial altruism - the act of doing good deeds for the ingroup that disadvantage the outgroup, among which suicide attacks are the most extreme example. Instead of religious devotion, the amount of time one engaged in collective religious rituals (such as attending church) was the strongest predictor to support suicide attacks. This raises the interesting issue that those who support parochial altruism (and thus serve as a likely stimulus for certain members to commit acts of parochial altruism) are not necessarily the extremely religious, but rather those with a stronger sense of community spirit.
