Religion often leads to war because people base their lives on religious beliefs and feel passionately about them. Hostility accumulates between groups with conflicting beliefs and becomes violent to the point of war. Many people grow deep in their religious beliefs because religion gives "a sense of identity" (461) that gives the person a feeling of belonging to a unified group that shares the same ideals and beliefs. When acts of violence are committed out of religious beliefs people tend to rationalize with it more than a random act of violence not motivated by religion. It is ironic that religious violence is an accepted social concept for religion is normally seen as revolving around purity and peace within yourself through God. Some religions even claim to preach the killing of others such as the muslims' justification for performing terrorist attacks on America. Although to them they are not the terrorists, Americans are because we allow things such as abortion and homosexual relationships. They believe it is their duty as a servant of God to punish the Americans for allowing such "sins", things Americans see as freedoms. Religion has a power that allows people to justify their terrorist actions with religious beliefs.