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> On a larger scale, big tribal feuds are often among groups with small differences, like Christian denominations and wars over dogmatic debates on the details.
by fennecfoxen 6y ago
> On a larger scale, big tribal feuds are often among groups with small differences, like Christian denominations and wars over dogmatic debates on the details.
Did you have a big Christian war in mind which was specifically about dogmatic differences, and not primarily about monarchs exerting their power over some group or another?
- C1sc0cat 6y agoSome that come to mind The Byzantine iconoclastic controversy 8-9 centuries weakened the Empire. Some bits of the ECW (bishops wars) where religious. The northern Crusades (much more savage that the eastern ones) The Hussite Wars
- mrkstu 6y agoI think the modern version is Islamic- you see many Sunni nations more willing to work with Israel than Shia Iran. Christianity is not an explicit part of any modern state outside of the Vatican that I'm aware of (with a small technical exception for Britain's monarchy.)
- osullivj 6y agoMount Athos has special autonomous status within the Greek Republic; the Orthodox equivalent of Vatican City for the Catholic world.
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- YeGoblynQueenne 6y ago(Not the OP) How about the Albigensian crusade? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albigensian_Crusade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albigensian_Crusade Also, possibly, sectarian violence in Ireland.
- fennecfoxen 6y agoIreland's feuds aren't sectarian, they're ethno-nationalist. We call them "Protestants" and "Catholics," but really what those names mean are "the group in Ulster and especially in Belfast, whose ancestors colonized the land for England, and a few who cooperated with them" and "the rest of the country whose ancestors lost their war and had to put up with being second class citizens oppressed by the British military and police well into the twentieth century." And even if the British monarch is a figurehead today, the legacy of violence goes back to the Tudors.