Holy war

A holy war is a Guerre launched in the name of a God or approved by a Religion. Concept appears at Augustin of Hippone in his famous work city of God against pagan where it states that, if the pagan ones do not want to include/understand the beauties and truths of the Christianisme as soon as it is exposed to them, he is necessary to be solved to make them the war. He comments on this word of Luc XIV.23 force them to enter .

Taking into account the character structuring for the men and the People S of their faith, this idea made fortune and such wars are particularly long and hard.

It can be offensive (in this case, to convert, drive out or destroy religious enemies), or defensive (when religious dignities estimate that the defeat will have a crucial impact on their faith, because of the beliefs of the enemy or the crowned nature of the places in question).

Among the wars find the Moslem conquest of the Mediterranean basin, the Croisade S and the Djihâd. The Moslems launched out, as of the beginnings of this religion, in wars intended to conquer and subject to Islam the other people. They stopped only when they found an opposition sufficiently powerful, in front of Byzance and in the kingdom of the Francs. The Christians organized crusades with the Moyen-âge to try to recover Jerusalem or to fight against the Cathares. The wars of religion are also to count like holy wars. Let us notice that there was no question there of seeking conversions: Cathares all were killed, and the official reason of the crusades was openly posted like Géopolitique: to replace the freedom of passage towards Jerusalem in its situation of before 1071.

Among Moslems, the word “Djihâd” means " lutte". The interpretation of certain countries religieusement autonomous as Morocco is nevertheless, officially, to regard Djihâd as a war against oneself and its bad inclinations (see Soufisme). This point of view is not shared by mobility wahhabite, including in this same Morocco.

The theological arguments internal with the great religions can lead to wars in the name of orthodoxy, like the many wars of religion at the time of the advent of the Protestantisme or the combat between sunnites and Shiite in Islam. In practice, the reasons of these wars are more often than it is affirmed economic reasons or geopolitical.

The esoterists, affiliated or not to the great religions monotheists, understand by " war sainte" the combat for the purification of oneself. The " term; war sainte" can then be named like " Voie" with the spiritual direction of the term.

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