Bad luck!" Brannad Klav snorted. "That's the standing excuse of every incompetent! - H. Beam Piper

We define people as criminals when they suffer from psychological aberrations of an antisocial character, usually paranoid—excessive egoism, disregard for the rights of others, inability to recognize the social necessity for mutual cooperation and confidence.

He’d seen theocracies all over paratime, and liked none of them; priests in political power usually made themselves insufferable, worse than any secular despotism.

A religious war, the vilest form an essentially vile business can take.