The assassin's work is highly dangerous, not only for the citizens in general but also for himself: a flaw in the operation and from being the murderer, he can end up as the victim. He also understands that killing makes him the object of vengeance for the relatives of his victim: "Get one thing into your head, no matter how disgraced the deceased is, there is always someone who will hurt for his death and will want revenge." His job is highly antisocial and however, the assassin in most cases, is deeply religious.

At present, Pablo Escobar has become an icon of assassins. Like the Virgin Mary, Help of Christians is the sacred deity appealed to by all thugs from Medellin, so she helps them not miss their aim when shooting, that the victim doesn't suffer and that the job is paid as negotiated.

The paradox of religious thugs are exposed by the number of amulets belonging to orthodox Christianity worn to assist them in their antisocial act and to avert the retaliation which may come from their violence.

This contradiction is revealed in an unusual prayer, which demands help to murder, in a individual ceremony where each bullet is prayed to for greater effectiveness. He puts the bullets in a preheated pan and then sprays it with water blessed by a priest of any church in the christian rituals. While the steam leaves the hot pan, he prays to San Judas Tadeo or any of the saints of the devotion in name of who he is conducting the ceremony: "By the grace of San Judas Tadeo, may these bullets not miss their target and may he not suffer in dying, amen."

Protestantism on capitalism enabled the link between destiny, the cure (the possibility of salvation) and the religious economic fate that had occurred within the medieval church, promoting a new social integration made possible by the affinity choice between religion and economics. The bourgeois of the old style, sees man as the measure of all things, but capitalism economic development has gain, and business, instead of man, as the central value.

In this sense, the assassins are the clearest expression of a collective representation in which gain and consumption are seen as fundamental social values. Your actions mean what Bell describes as the great desecration, with its correlative sense of loss making link social and personal emptiness. He does not socially relegate his faith in myths and rituals, since society is based on a radical individualism who's ideal of self is based on economic success. In other words, while appealing to the divine for the success of their actions, their motives are solely economic to worship the most impersonal god that exists, money.

With the money, the subject has the means for consumption, for the purchase of the products that allow him to exist. For a marginal profane, as the assassin, religion is nothing more than the cheapest deal and the sense that he can gain access to it without major social exposure adds to its allure, It's personal: in this meaning that it's worth going over the prayer of the Just Judge for in doing it he has nothing to lose. This is the Prayer of the Just Judge as read by assassins like those in Medellin:

"If eyes they have,
may they not see me,
if hands they have,
may they not grab me,
don't allow them to
surprise me from behind,
don't allow my death to be violent,
don't allow my blood to be spilled.
You, who know all, know of my sins,
but also know of my faith,
don't leave me to dispair.
Amen."