'Religion' - the very concept itself, of ~
Meta-allegiance to an internally imagined 'personal God who Loves Me Myself Specially' / via voices in my head / and must be obeyed, no matter *what* those 'instructions'* mean for my next actions towards fellow homo-saps all around.
* as I decode then unerringly.. of course!
- may be listed on the death certificate for the species, as cause of expiry. (Should anyone have time for a grave-stone amidst the debris.) The nukes are only the EZ means, not the proximate cause.
cf. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes - for one story at 11.
Pace pace O Mio Dio