Talk:Religious war
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Surely the term "religious war" did not originate from the hacker subculture?!? --romanm (talk) 19:02, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- No, you're right. "Religious war" is a much broader concept, including but certainly not limited to the crusades—and it's quite often used in contemporary settings.
- Hackers typically call these things Holy Wars (complete with (admittedly optional) capitals), not religious wars. Holy war is a popular term for religious war in general, but the hacker phrase has a specific meaning, hence the capitals.
- This is an exponent of Wikipedia:Bias. I'll see if I can get people to care—I suck at history. JRM 14:16, 2004 Nov 12 (UTC)
I would redirect the hacker section to flame war, then expand the stub.Pookleblinky 09:52, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC) I will the former, and hope I don't get pinned as a vandal.
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[edit] Inauthentic saying?
My Iraqi-American friend says that this is incorrect:
- however, this report has received much criticism as being an inauthentic saying, i.e. it is a saying of someone after the death of Muhammad and was not the words of Muhammad himself.
Only enemies of Islam or militants within the Islamic sphere cast doubt upon the Muhammedan saying quoted in the article about lesser and greater jihad. Uncle Ed 13:22, August 2, 2005 (UTC)
I recently completed a level 3 (Grade 12) World Religions class, and we were told that a Jihad is only an inner struggle, using it to describe a war, as it is often done, is incorrect. --DotDarkCloud 13:12, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Religous War
i really think that it is rather plain that a religious war is a war over and or caused by a religion. why this is being debated baffles me. This artical needs to be relaid out with perhaps independent sections on Northeren Ireland, Jihad, crusades and the like
- Problem is that just about every war has religius justifications "God is with us", or priests blessing battleships, stuff like that. And just about any war have other interests than the purely religios, making it difficult to extract religious war as a subcategory of war.
- The French article seem to attempt to solve this by discussion the term religious war instead of the wars themself. Who have used the term, and why?--Per Abrahamsen 13:14, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
Others?
Are there other religious wars that you can point us to besides the crusades, inquisition?~~NRICH~~
just wondering, in the eyes of the insurgents and such in Afghan,Iraq etc, are they just trying to boot the invaders out, or wage absolute war on Christianity, Judaism, themselves ect. Just wondering in non trolling flambait way... seriously, forgive the dumb question D: ~~n00ber~~
- I think that everyone fights for their own reasons, some because of religion, but I doubt all --T-rex 20:56, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] shouldnt there be a section for the term crusade?
just saying there should be a section more on the term crusade like there is for jihad, thats not specificly about the historical crusades
- agreed, I'm going to copy/paste the intro to the crusades article in for now, if the Sabres win tonight I should have some time to fix it up a little more later--T-rex
[edit] what vs. what
"Is it Muslims vs. Christianity? Or is it the Middle East vs. The West? Many people have different views, definitions and opinions upon this subject." It's an inapropriate sentence, even saying that opinions may differ (kinda trying to wash its hands) still shouldn't be there. the muslims mostly fight the jews, and those who they dislike in the west don't practice christianism, are the liberals ateist bi/homosexuals drug addicteds "jew driven" parents-haters people (soon the vast majority of west's population). besides, these people are considered sinners in every religion. the 'muslim vs. christianity' basically means 'arabs vs euro/whites' you know.
-I agree. That paragraph looks pretty rough and is pretty bias. Someone should really clean it up or delete it all together. It sounds very informal too.--Zombiema7 08:14, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] List of doomsday scenarios
Could use votes to save this article, thanks MapleTree 22:34, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
- Seems to me it has already been deleted... --PaxEquilibrium 14:45, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hmm...
The Bosnian War was pretty much a religious war. --PaxEquilibrium 14:44, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
