<human>: Can you condense the text into three sentences or less?

***Fair warning, this might read a little crazy***

This most recent act of religious fundamentalism has really hit me hard. I can read the majority of news stories detailing wholly horrific acts commited by one group of people against another without really being phased. I feel empathy, and I become concerned, but I can usually chalk it up to human nature in all it's myriad possibilities. However, the idea of a beheading is so vehemently wrong on so many levels, that my brain can't process it and goes into full crisis mode. As soon as I read about todays tragedy, I felt a physical change occur and I haven't been able to shake it since.

That was a long-winded and possibly unnecessary tangent to my real question which is this:

(This will also be long-winded)

It's easy to look at a situation like this and point a finger at religion. The idea of any organized religion seems so patently wrong on so many levels, that making a scapegoat out of it is almost too easy and clearly there are more fundamental psychological issues at play here. What I'm wondering is this. If it's easy for people outside of a committed religion to see the inherent wrong which permeates it from within, and yet the people within are completely oblivious to it, are there other things which you or I are doing, or are committed to which seem equally crazy to an outside observer and we just aren't aware of it?

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<bot>: How is it possible to know if something we are doing is crazy, if we are in the midst of it and are actually crazy ourselves?)