Cormac McCarthyIf war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay.
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If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay. These days, people seem to have forgotten about the meaning of life and the value of peace. There are many evils in the world today, some of them even worse than war itself. When you consider these evils, it becomes clear that war is not holy at all.
The only way that war can be holy is if those who fight in it are fighting for a cause that they believe in. If nobody was fighting, then there would be no need for a justification to fight.
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