When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justified.

The status quo sucks.

The status quo is simply unacceptable.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.

Just because the question can be answered doesn't mean that anyone is obliged to answer it, or that it ought to be asked.