In his 2003 Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, 3rd Edition (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society, Vol. 13) 
One of the “more rational” causes of war is conflict over land.
The mind boggles: It’s as if the “motherland” and its borders were not regarded as “sacred” even by virtually all rational nation-states.
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