I suspect religion is just a front. There are so many contradictions that suddenly make sense when you start thinking of it as a proxy for ethnic groups.
Historically, embracing a "persuasion" has been part of strategies in games of power - as in, "you are different from us so you cannot govern us".
In the context of this submission: yes, again there can be suspicions of "partitic" actions ("see, we are defending our base").
Which, if this is the case, amounts to blasphemy (again as per my original introduction, then flagged).
(And of course, with regard to the more times expressed relevance of this submission, it raises a question of "and where will this "defence" stop, also considering that we are creating pseudo-mind software?")
