War as Divine

In pantheism war is one of the archetypes - an inescapable pattern of life, a paradigm of mass behaviour forged into place with tradition. Yet it somewhat reappears more subdued and veiled in monotheism in the Wrath of God, his anger at the wrongdoings of man for example. Wars have not been eliminated from history with the salvation brought by faith in God or baptism. It is very difficult to match the core religious idea of progress in morality and virtues with the reality of wars as historical means of solving a conflict. War is not divine. Vedic culture has been a good example where the interpretation ethical living according to canon was changing and the concept of Ahimsa - nonviolence was brought to the point of the highest ideal. Yet this canon is not free of wars - The Bhagavadgita begins with it.