You mean it’s purposeful? They incapacitate an enemy using theology?
Can theology be seen as a kind of violence? It's easy to see the argument as aesthetically appealing. Rene Girard's mimetic theory points out how religion is built on releasing social tension through the use of scapegoating -- Christ being the ultimate example of such. Encoded into the group-favoring paradigm of religion, there is seen an us-versus-them mentality. One can definitely use religious thought to point out differences between others, make them seem foreign and undesirable. When confronting someone with such encoded language, it's easy to see how this could be made an intrusion of mental violence.
