> Due to the connotations of "religious battle", it's hard to get a good answer here. Nobody wants to be painted in this light.
Haven't we all found ourselves lined up as one of a pair of camps over some heated dispute over a bit of minutiae? The whole time you know it's a bit silly, but not entirely and you feel compelled to continue to argue.
Using a term like "religious battles" with tongue firmly in cheek is recognizing that we're prone to such things because we're human beings, by putting a lampshade on it.
This gets trickier when you have a community where some people practice religion in their daily life, and some people don't, and where the interactions between the two aren't always fun. It's not that the subject needs to be totally forbidden of course, but when it's just as easy to use different metaphors, we might as well.
Haven't we all found ourselves lined up as one of a pair of camps over some heated dispute over a bit of minutiae? The whole time you know it's a bit silly, but not entirely and you feel compelled to continue to argue.
Using a term like "religious battles" with tongue firmly in cheek is recognizing that we're prone to such things because we're human beings, by putting a lampshade on it.