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Someone mentioned the Thirty Years War several pages ago. It's worth noting that this war was actually a proxy war for a dynastic conflict between the Bourbon (French) and Hapsburg (Spanish and Austrian) monarchies. The situation with Germany in that war closely mirrors Iraq and Afghanistan today. In all of these cases, external intervention (French and Swedish for Germany, Soviet and American for Afghanistan, just American for Iraq) undermined the countries legitimate secular power structures. With central secular power de-legitimized, social order rests on religion because it is the next biggest piece of society. If it were then possible to totally de-legitimize religion, then rather than seeing paradise emerge as everyone abandons magical thinking, you instead see society seize hold of the next biggest source of authority. At each stage of this disintegration, a society manifests social friction as violence. As a society is forced to rely on less universal sources of authority for its organization, more people die. If you smite Leviathan, Popes and Ayatollahs fill its place. If you smite Popes and Ayatollahs, there are geographical and customary associations and then varying degrees of kinship ties that are all that sits between any society and a return to a Hobbesian war of all against all.
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