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What is another word for religious war?

Pronunciation: [ɹɪlˈɪd͡ʒəs wˈɔː] (IPA)

A "religious war" refers to a conflict waged in the name of religion where the objective is to establish or defend one's faith against another. However, there are other phrases that one can use instead of "religious war" depending on the context and situation. "Holy war" is a synonym that refers to a war fought with religious motives as a justification, and "crusade" is often used to depict wars fought in the Middle Ages by Christian forces in the Holy Land. Another synonym for "religious war" is "sectarian conflict," which emphasizes the tension between different sects of the same religion. By using synonyms, we can better understand the nuance of these conflicts and the various ways that they are perceived.
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  • If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message.
    Moustapha Akkad
  • We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
    Konrad Lorenz
  • At the dawn of a worldwide religious war that Americans prefer to name a war against terror, I feel myself drawn to Islam, drawn to read the Koran, even to kiss the Koran—melodramatically, but sincerely—as I did one evening recently in front of a university audience. I meant to honor Islam. I meant to convey that, as a Christian, I consider myself a loving brother to the Muslim, as I am to the Jew, by the favor of Father Abraham.
    Richard Rodriguez
  • Mr. Duff Cooper, landing at New York, cools his mind by blowing off about a forthcoming revolt of the German Army and a return to monarchy in Germany, a Holy Roman Empire, I suppose, leading that new Crusade of which the Pope has been talking about recent against anti-God Russia. But quite a lot of radical people in the world, in spite of the folly, stupidity and brutality of the Stalin–Molotov attack on Finland, are averse from this idea of a religious war against Socialism and Atheism.
    H. G. Wells
  • Now we have the prospect of a religious war on our hands, with the attendant proliferation of “heresies” and two separate but equal inquisitions.
    George Alec Effinger

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