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[TreasonousBastard]

Very few, if any, denominations are or were "pro war." Many congregations supported this and other wars, many didn't, and many church governing bodies fell all over themselves defining "Just War" and tried not to alienate their congregations.

Even within church groups and congregations, there are divisions. ELCA Lutherans, for instance subscribe to the Just War doctrines, and made a statement against this war a an unjust one, but many congregations disagreed. Missouri Synod Lutherans take Just War less seriously, and made few comments at all, tacitly going along with the war.

Methodists were also divided, with some against it, and some for it. The divide was, as with the Baptists, largely along North/South lines.

There is a similar divide among Jews. Judaism has strains of thought similar to Just War, but it's a minority opinion, iirc.