Religious Wars (Buddhism, preach, religious leader, verse, religions)

[kai]

Hindu military science recognizes two kinds of warfare - the dharmayuddha and the kutayuddha. Dharmayuddha is war carried on the principles of dharma, meaning here the Ksatradharma or the law of Kings and Warriors. In other words, it was a just and righteous war which had the approval of society. On the other hand, kuttayuddha was unrighteous war.
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Hindu Wisdom - War in Ancient India

[Saint Tigeress]

One question I just thought of, which was, in a way the reason I started this thread:
Christianity seems to have an awfully violent history, beginning of course with crucifixions. You know, there were all kinds of wars, the spanish inquisistion, the witch hunts etc. I have always seen christian history as topping the list of the "violent/ psychotic." Islam seem to be right up there with christianity as far as the violence goes. Go figure the main difference is the crucifixtion of Christ. They have enough similarities. Jesus is still a high prophet according to Islam, they just see Muhamad as The Prophet.
Why do these two seem to just breed extremism and psychoticness?? I know that people are stupid and some can make anything extreme and crazy, but it just seems to happen to people the most with christianity and Islam. I mean heck, my professor told us that in the quaran the word jihad can be translated to mean external or internal war. So there is the "excuse" for the nuts in that religion, but what excuse do christian nuts have for thier crazy atrocities?
Is this an equal-across-the-board thing? Or am I right that most are in these two religious denominations?

[Saint Tigeress]

btw....as far as actual teaching/ doctrine/ scripture/ most adherants/ I am hard pressed to find things I do not like. So don't take that the wrong way. I consider myself christian for the most part, but I am reading the Quaran right now, my Dad is Wiccan so I lean there a lot, and I have studied most religions at least a little. The stupidity of commiting atrocities, and killing, and torturing in the name of anything Divine just blows my mind.

[Don Penguinoini]

Your not the only one.

[Pariah]

Originally Posted by kai

Hindu military science recognizes two kinds of warfare - the dharmayuddha and the kutayuddha. Dharmayuddha is war carried on the principles of dharma, meaning here the Ksatradharma or the law of Kings and Warriors. In other words, it was a just and righteous war which had the approval of society. On the other hand, kuttayuddha was unrighteous war.
source
Hindu Wisdom - War in Ancient India

Society's approval does not automatically assume that society's knowledge is dharmic.

However, I would say that the vast majority of Hindu wars waged in the name of Hinduism were very much in defense of the religion as seen during the Middle Ages during the invasions of the Muslims.

Originally Posted by Somkid

Hindunet: The Hindu Universe: HOLY AND UNHOLY WARS UNDER HINDUISM

I'm surprised you decided to post this without checking the source. The author is Muslim and clearly biased against Hinduism and the Hindu case. His comment about the RSS and its great representation is silly in addition to being downright wrong - in fact, the RSS often complain about how the Indian government and media criticize them far too often!

He continues to "elaborate" upon his point by quoting vague sources (he references only chapters of the Mahabharata and not specific verses allowing him to make gross generalities and false accusations) and asserts that Krishna is the culprit of Hindu militarism, when in fact he lead two peace proposals to prevent the Mahabharat war to begin with!

It's a bad source and I'm disappointed that you decided to post it.

As early as as the 4th century B.C. Megasthenes noticed a peculiar trait of Indian warfare.
"Whereas among other nations it is usual, in the contests of war, to ravage the soil and thus to reduce it to an uncultivated waste, among the Indians, on the contrary, by whom husbandmen are regarded as a class that is sacred and inviolable, the tillers of the soil, even when battle is raging in their neighborhood, are undisturbed by any sense of danger, for the combatants on either side in waging the conflict make carnage of each other, but allow those engaged in husbandry to remain quite unmolested. Besides, they never ravage an enemy's land with fire, nor cut down its trees."

(source: A Brief History of India - By Alain Danielou p. 106).

[Aupmanyav]

That is nice, Pariah. Are you still around?