Most European war mongering originated either from bad Christians or those who were not Christian at all.
It is Islam, far more than Christianity, which has the concept of the ‘holy war’.
Christian ‘holy wars’ against Muslims have generally been either defensive, or to recover territory lost to Muslim invasions.
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