It's just indicative of them preserving their own intellectual apparatus throughout its conversation with the west, the chemistry part of that is a lot more threatening, or they wouldn't be bombing pharmaceutical plants. People tend to essentialize cultural qualities they admire or religious conviction, but maybe there is someone out there who really believes these are metaphysical rockets. An ideological view of politics is a shortcoming. Can lead you to postpone buying Chinese military equipment for years. I don't think we need any religion that exists today in order to take advantage of the regular kind of immortality offered by preserving our world, maybe eventually going beyond it. The idea that people need irrational beliefs to make sacrifices is purely individualistic