Holy war

Holy war may refer to:

• a Religious war justified by religious differences.

• The Cherem referred to in the Tanakh.
• Jihad, a duty for Muslims which has different meanings.
• Reconquista
• Seisen, the name given by Showa era propaganda to the Second Sino-Japanese War, based on the hakko ichiu.
• Taiping Rebellion
• Muslim conquest in the Indian subcontinent
• Jewish-Roman Wars
• Arab-Israeli Wars
• Way of the Celestial Masters
• Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion
• European wars of religion, the European religious conflicts of the 16th and 17th centuries
• French Wars of Religion, the 16th century Catholic-Protestant conflicts in France
• Crusades, the Muslim-Christian conflicts in medieval Palestine
• The Religion War, a 2004 novel by Dilbert creator Scott Adams.

• Holy War: The Crusades and their Impact on Today's World, a book by Karen Armstrong
• Holy War (Villanova vs. St. Joe's), the annual college basketball rivalry between two Philadelphia-area schools, Saint Joseph's University and Villanova University.
• Holy War (Boston College vs. Notre Dame), the occasional college football game between Boston College and the University of Notre Dame, the only two Roman Catholic Division I FBS schools
• Holy War (Utah vs. BYU), an annual college football game matching Utah in-state rivals Brigham Young University and the University of Utah.
• "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due", a song written by Megadeth on their 1990 album Rust in Peace.
• Svyaschennaya Voyna (The Sacred War), a song written on the day after the Nazi invasion of the USSR
• The Holy War, a 1682 novel by John Bunyan

In computer programming and technology in general, holy wars are endless debates where no consensus is achieved, such as

• Indent style
• Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux
• Debian vs. Red Hat vs. SUSE vs. Ubuntu
• Editor war: vi vs. emacs
• Opera vs. Firefox
• C++ vs. Java vs. C#
• Perl vs. Ruby vs. Python
• KDE vs. GNOME
• Underscores vs. CamelCase
• Big Design Up Front vs. agile software development
• Neats vs. scruffies, a debate in artificial intelligence research.

In videogames

• Seisen no Keifu Genealogy of the Holy War a Fire Emblem videogame

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