Devoted Actors die & kill in the name of Sacred Objects: Part XXIV

Throughout Western history, groups have sought to affirm their own belief systems by eliminating or destroying groups of people whose beliefs contradict the beliefs of one’s own group. The struggle between competing ideologies—each possessing a claim to absolute truth—is a fundamental source of collective forms of violence. The very existence of an other ideology—claiming to be absolutely true—is felt as working to undermine or destroy one’s own ideology. Acts of violence are initiated to determine—once and for all—”the truth.”