The word "religion" is a misnomer for civilization. The wars fought for it are done for the sake of spreading cultures/influence rather than bringing man into oneness with the spiritual. For the sake of legitimacy, the concept of God is made central, and thus legitimizing these colonizations. The colonized is sometimes foolish and simply cannot see this. Yet, the colonized who is able to adopt this method and spread the religion further (as conquests) could gain a fair bit of this corrupt power that religion provides. As for those who embrace the divine part of a religion and not its power of grand delusion, they are damned fools.