No holy book has ever given rise to, let alone provided the basis for, any conflict, let alone war. However, although war and religion have always been extremely contradictory phenomena, they have been able to intertwine and support each other countless times. Every religion, regardless of the content of its teachings, becomes completely identical to all other religions when it enters into the dangerous game of inciting, justifying, or serving politics. Moreover, religion can give an even more terrible and sinister stamp to political violence, intolerance, self-interest, cruelty, and conflicts if it begins to be permeated by the spirit of perverse religious persistence and sick fanaticism. In this case, we are dealing with a meeting of perverted politics and false religion. Behind almost all conflicts to date were exclusively economic, political, territorial, and demographic motivations, and religion served only as a justification, and never as a real motive. Political and military leaders, driven by extra-religious motives, adapt original religious teachings for the purposes of manipulation for nationalist and war purposes. The paradox of the connection between religion and nationality arises from the fact that religion is linked to a universal heavenly community, while the nation is identified as an earthly community, so religion in itself cannot be a support for national differentiation. However, every religion also contains an ideological aspect, and whenever ideology is at work, politics is always involved. Since religious differences are stronger and more permanent than political, economic and ethnic differences, political leaders arm themselves with references to religious symbols in order to make their own language more effective in mobilizing their citizens. Unfortunately, religious rhetoric is often offered to politics as a last resort to convince the masses that it is right to kill others. Political leaders, when they run out of other convincing and rational arguments, often appeal to the people's sacred values that are the basis of national consciousness, i.e. past suffering and avenging that suffering, for which they find religious justification. By manipulating emotions in this way, they strongly encourage conflict. In some circumstances, the function of religion becomes the defense of national or interest identity, so that faith in conflicts becomes important, and often the only element of confirmation of common identity. Politics uses this, because precisely when it is hidden by the “mask” of the sacred, it better conceals its goals and therefore manipulates more successfully. Thus, a conflict that has nothing to do with religion at its core is exacerbated by the interference of religion. Religion becomes a repertoire of symbols that various political and social actors use when talking about a threatened identity and the enemy who threatens that identity. Collective identity and religious symbols are glorified to the extreme, until identity begins to be understood as an ideal in contrast to that of the enemy. Individuals identify with a group that gives them a sense of belonging, self-respect, and distinction from another group. If members of a group believe that they are positively different from another group, a sense of superiority is created in relation to that group. In such cases, the parties involved perceive the conflict as the only possible solution, within which each party seeks to defend or impose its identity on the other, most often by violent methods. Religion as a war ideology makes the conflict longer and more intense, and this is precisely what social and political movements need in order to achieve their goals.