The arguments made to justify this kind of warfare, says McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, “have evidently grown out of a desire to conciliate the civil power, and are clearly opposed to the ancient Christian doctrine and to the whole spirit of the Gospel. ” — James 4: 4.
फिर पादरी सेनाओं को आशिष देते हैं और विजय की प्रार्थनाएँ करते हैं, प्रायः यह संघर्ष के दोनों पक्षों में होता है ।