How many heads of state have, for example, strapped on explosives and, while shouting alaakbar, charged into a crowd while detonating themselves? Find me one. One will do.
Why would they do that when they can convince others to do it instead? Wouldn't make it very far as a cult leader or a head of state if you couldn't convince others to do your work for you.
How is a head of State and a Religious fanatic all that different? They both seek the same thing, power.
They are cut from the same cloth, just the religious fanatic uses religion to subject his followers. Most of those fanatics don't even believe what they're preaching, but they certainly believe in the power of it.
Find me a religious fanatic leader that would blow himself up, when so many followers would gladly do it for him, just one would do.
Other than Jesus, I can't think of one.
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams
