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.

regardless of the requirements of the Just War theory in the Bible God is frequently on the side of those waging wars that don't conform to just war theory The overriding aim of war should be to ...

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 ...

(403) So the Romans being now become masters of the wars, they both placed their ensigns ... as having found the end of this war much lighter than its beginning; for when they had gotten upon ...