This is one of those things where a believer would say and do anything they believe their god told them to do that comes really close to mental illness in my opinion so much so that if the person themselves doesn't question it...they are probably mentally ill.

However, I am not so far removed from belief that I can't say that there isn't the possibility that a person or maybe a group of people could experience the will of something greater than themselves. Allowing a person or group of people to survive or do something where the odds would say they should have died/failed.

It's just when it comes to willfully harming yourself (not putting yourself in harms way but actually hurting yourself because something/someone says to) or purposefully harming another under the command of a "god" is the line that keeps me from religions. You have every right to protect yourself and others, but when you move into murderous rampage/thuggery is where you lose for sure. There's obviously other things I have issues with when it comes to belief and religions, but killing "in the name of _________________" is a big issue and has a long history of being used to justify many things.

I understand why this thinking exists...it's an easy way to erase your culpability and an easy fundamental to fall back on it. But it's falls dangerously close to "They die because _________ is/are better." Where the blank is I, whites, americans, christians, etc.