User blog comment:Miskos3/Episode 272: Fairy Tail Zerø: The One Who Teaches Magic, Review/@comment-190.58.249.5-20160221003339/@comment-7418318-20160221184752

It is irrelevant whether they are "blind puppets" for the matter of the power of feelings. It matters only what they themselves beliefe.

If you want a real-life example just look at sect members or suicide bombers.

We know that the sect leaders and hate preachers are not the true representatives of any deity and that they are just using their believers as "blind puppets" as you put it, but those "puppets" still truly beliefe and are even willing to sacrifice their lives for that "higher cause".