War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.
So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.
If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.
The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
War is like love; it always finds a way.
There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.
You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited to religious fanatics committing mass murder and suicide for the greater glory of God.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.