Cosmic framing converts geopolitical grievances into sacred duty

Evidence

Concrete political goals—the dispatching of foreign troops into Saudi Arabia—had metastasized into a humiliation-fueled, divinely ordained duty to destroy Satan’s emissaries. What better way to infuse a conflict with cosmic significance and attract adherents willing to sacrifice their lives than to declare a holy war against American evildoers? — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 520

Categorization

• XREF: Mirrors how scarceness of meaning drives totalizing conflict — connects to the sacred-violence readings in The Worm at the Core’s own thesis about death transcendence.