Religious war is an absurd idea because it is the opposite word of peace! Again, we know peace is the opposite word of war. Yet again, every religion claims that the religion is peace and for peace. Now, the conclusion says that ‘religious war’ means “peace war”, and it sounds like “light from darkness.” So, we must realise that the religions stand only for peace and every war is considered only a war and should not be connected to any kind of divinity or holiness.
Now, we can see different types of religious wars! Some say, to convert people of other faiths they fight religious war. Some other say, to defend their own religion from the aggressor they fight religious war. Again some say, war for justice is the religious war. Yet again some say, a war with the strict war rules is called religious war.
First of all, let us discuss the first type of religious war. Every religion has the universal truth, love and morality as its main religious part and all other parts are only ritual parts, not directly connected to the religion! Thus, it clearly says that they are fighting a religious war only for changing some rituals of the people of other religions, and not for any change of main part or essential part of religion!!
In the second type, we see the claim that the defending one’s religion from the aggressor is a religious war. Every country has its own defence system, and some fought against aggressors, but it is a mere war. Anybody may be the aggressor, but it is called only a war with the aggressor, we should not term them as the religious war.
The third type, they say that fighting for justice is the religious war. In every reason of war, one side must feel it as an injustice. Then, we bound to term all the wars as religious war! So, war is a mere war, we should not glorify it in any way.
The last type, they say that any war with strict war rules can be called the religious war. Under any strict rules if anything happens, then, we call them as the sport! No war has been fought anywhere under strict war rules, even myths say that Gods disobeyed the war rules many times in the war fields!!
So, war is only a war and cannot be given any kind of divinity or holiness at all. Please try to realise the fact that any kind of war, in fact, is the real enemy of religion! So, if human beings need religion, then their first and foremost duty is to maintain peace in this world. Moreover, this same ‘peace’ is theoretically claimed by every religion, though they all failed to achieve it!!