And yet if we are sincere, we must confess that in the 20th century, many of us still have the mentality that we condemn in the Old Testament. Even today, examples can be found of this mentality that demands the imposition of physical punishment for the religious, spiritual transgression of God's law. Some still believe in wars of religion. Some still turn to violence or more insidious means to triumph or convince others in religious or other fields.

In the Middle East conflict, God is part in the conflict. Because the land is holy for all the parts. He is part in very different ways, according to every party's view. The biblical concepts of the covenant, the chosen people, the promised land, are used not by all, but by some groups, not just in their theological significance but also in a literal political meaning, and become a support of political or military action against the other who is the Palestinian. The fundamentalist Christians so called Zionist Christians are also using religious concepts or views to support political or military Israeli realities. Palestinian Moslems respond by saying all of Palestine is a Moslem sacred land. Hence the necessity of defending the land, hence the concept of the martyr, dying for the land of God is dying for God, and hence the concept, pushed to the extreme, gives birth to the suicide killing.