Religious leaders have sometimes declared that there was a religious duty on believers to go to war. This idea appears often in the Bible and has been used to justify suicide bombing in recent times.

Signs in the heavens, wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes, and that's all in the last week. It all sounds like something right out of what the Bible describes as the end times.

and the clergy used lightsabers to compare the message in "Star Wars" to the message of the Bible, comparing the biblical struggle between good and evil to the struggle between light and dark in ...

Holy wars usually have three ... authority was often God - in the Bible there are several occasions where God gave direct instructions to peoples to wage war. This would not be the case today.