As with the genocide described in Deuteronomy, burning someone alive repeatedly (if only by magically reanimating their cooked skin), forcing one's victim to drink scalding water, and ignoring pleas for mercy and forgiveness are all behaviors that if perpetrated on in-group members would be considered the morally incomprehensible and macabre acts of a psychopath, someone with unspeakable disregard for in-group rules. But in the eyes of many religious followers, the very concept of morality is synonymous with adherence to religious edicts and practices, including those as vicious as the above.

— Alpha God by Hector A. Garcia