Childish behaviour. If you wanted to join a group that depends on it’s competition to be superior, has members who all wear the same clothes and think they have a superior advantage over each other and people in ‘civvy’ street then take your pick.

Any religion, sport or military will dress you up and let you act in the most childish of manners while making it seem completely acceptable and normal to shed yourself of any responsibility for your actions.

You can pray to angels, believe in aliens or anything for that matter, fight for your cause, even cause/witness blood shed – certainly be involved in conflict.

Even down to victories and defeats.

And the inevitable body count. On both sides. Anyone thinking their is no body count in sports think of fox hunting, boxing, game hunting and bull fighting to get back on track.

There is always ‘glory’ in victory and lessons learned from defeats. Plus the labels. So many labels for glory and victory. Ranks, achievement awards, a bestowment of a higher office in church all have a thousand variations and amount to the same. A group ranking it’s own members.

So others can go home and bask in the ‘glory of victory’. Bear in mind your basking is possible because others lost (and that can include lives). Quite an expensive ‘high’ for someone to pursue.

Another easy to notice comparison is the tenacity of members AND followers to dull their view of reason to justify what they do/support. No one was born to bomb others. But the military and some religious followers do. It doesn’t make sense to beat up another human for fame and money – boxers do. Boxing spectators are in my view are barely a notch above fox hunters and big game hunters in their blood lust.

Another common cry for those ‘in’ is their argument that most people just do not get what they do and why.

That is for a very good reason.

It’s just covers to behave as though one is not responsible and finding an avenue to justify that human tendency through an apparent lack of another option.

Of course we all want to have that fire of life we had when we were 10 before the reality of life deciding to start slapping us in the face. Religions, sports and the military provide ‘safe havens’ to go to just be that 10 year old idealistic warrior you’ve held onto so dearly from the age of 10, forever.

Except the mentality of such pursuits stays at this 10 year old idealistic warrior stage of maturity forever… with far more dire consequences than could ever be achieved by any child.

The enthusiasm most experience in such pursuits actual definition is ‘divine madness’ as in it’s, a feeling of undue righteouness.

All 3 hold onto a moral high ground of being ‘the best’ which is the most ridiculous argument I have ever heard of. Most different perhaps, assuming a best is saying everyone has to agree with you, that’s one heck of an ego among 8.1 billion people.

But of the 3 I think society has learned best to civilize sports. Gone are the gladitors arena that use humans – almost. Bull fighting in Spain is still common.

Bar that exception though, society has massively managed to make most sports less fodder for the blood lust crowd. Excitement for spectators and adrenaline for the participants seems to be almost enough.

Underground dog fighting will always let the team down as much as fox hunting with hounds.

Religions and military’s though can’t be made to ‘grow up’ or ‘civilize’ themselves more in their pursuit as being righteous is part of their job descriptions and deaths are to be expected when one is ‘fighting for a higher cause’. It might be said that deaths caused are a shame or collateral damage but inwardly the religious fanatic and military fighter relishes the blood of their enemy flowing.

Outwith the arena’s of war, religion and sport this behaviour is criminal. It’s sickening. Within it’s righteous. The UK oversight judged the war on Iraq was illegal. We paid for and had our armed forces go abroad and murder in our name.

We all have some sense of blood lust as a child, most grow out of it.

Some can’t.