<i>&gt; Why blow yourself up when you can make a bomb and then another and another?</i><p>To avoid having to endure the consequences of your own actions. For people with nothing to lose, suicide attacks are actually the most risk-averse choice: regardless of the possible existence of an afterworld, you&#x27;re certain to escape punishment in <i>this</i> world. Look at Columbine-style attacks - no religion there, just semi-rational choices.<p>People don&#x27;t blow themselves up because a book or a preacher tells them so; they do it because they are fed up with living shitty lives (either in material or spiritual terms). <i>That</i> is what education should bring them: the consciousness that there is always something worth <i>living</i> for. At that point, whether god exists or not, it doesn&#x27;t matter.