I think it boils down to an inflated sense of over-supplication. Ritual, worship, and sacrifice are all generalized vehicles that are supposed to both a)make your relationship with whatever god you wish stronger, and b) proove your faith to whomever might be paying attention...since that seems to provide the basis for omnescience.
It's an egotistical act developed to get money by preying on people's inability to take control over their actions.
*ahem* IM-freaking-HO, of course.
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Suicide killed many...
Drink,
and the Devil,
did the rest.
-Hemmingway.
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