Is committing war crimes in the name of religion justified?

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No.

War crimes are very hard to justify under any circumstance.

For example i am pretty sure that the bombings of Nagasaki and Dresden were war crimes that my own nation committed.

The bombing of Hiroshima might have been a war crime, and might have been justified. I don't believe the two to be mutually exclusive.

The 2nd siege of Fallujah was an atrocity that my own nation committed, comprising innumerable war crimes. Is whether any of those crimes were justified a meaningful question?

War for any other purpose but defending ourselves against against aggression is not justified. War is a war crime.

Nationalism is a much better reason.

Religion comes in with "kill them all, God knows his own!" Good Christians will just get to meet God sooner.

I am sure when we dropped more bombs on Viet Nam than all sides dropped in WWII, we were careful to not bomb women, children, old people, or civilian property. We only used Napalm and White Phosphorus on military targets. The only war crime was when 300 to 500 civilians were killed in a village and recorded. TV was restricted, and Lt. Cally served three months in the brig. The Viet Cong did not wear uniforms, they were all civilians.

In the war in the Pacific when we took islands there were no survivors. They all chose a heroic death charging into our machine guns and flame throwers. All the civilians killed themselves because the Japanese had told them we were the bad guys. Official Version.

When MacArthur took Manila, he killed half the population doing so, all of the Japanese enlisted, tried 5,000 Officers the next day, and hung them the next.

War is the biggest crime of all, and no living witnesses the best outcome.

These words like War Crimes and Genocide are a recent thing. No army left potential spies and enemies alive.

We made our way from Normandy and Italy to Berlin by throwing a grenade through the window or door before entering a building. We bombed all German cities to rubble, then bombed the rubble. After the war millions of Germans were held in outdoor camps, where millions died. The poison bread helped.

Fifty million dead takes work. The Germans did half of it on the eastern front, the Allies the other half through Europe.

There are historic, economic, political reasons for war. But once it starts, there is nothing but kill everyone between Point A and Point B.

The first victim is truth. A little medical knowledge shows all those people in camps had Typhoid. The rail lines that brought food were bombed. Typhoid turns people to skeletons real quick.

In the Pacific we torpedoed Japanese hospital ships we knew were carrying American prisoners. We had broken the Japanese code early in the war. We knew they were sending prisoners back to japan, we sank them.

We stockpiled poison gas for the invasion of japan, the plan was kill everything, move forward, kill everything.

The Atomic Bomb worked, we only had two. If they had not surrendered, the plan was round the clock bombing with poison gas.

Japan had a million man army in Manchuria, Korea, that we could not reach, they had all the supplies of China. We were going to kill everyone in Japan. When we get finished, the Japanese language will only be spoken in hell.

You would not want a God that tolerated such behavior.

I think the use of white phosphorus in the Second Battle of Fallujah was pretty horrifying

If the US were run by aspies, the Department of Defense would be called Department of Aggression.

Martin Luther was horrifically antisemitic and it's foolish to deny that, but it doesn't negate the rest of his philosophy no more than it does to negate the vast, vast majority of figures throughout history who harbored prejudiced beliefs. Many theologians have echoed the exact same sentiments as Luther (err...as in the first quote, not the violent antisemitism part), all of which is derived mostly from Jesus' words in Matthew (and nobody puts the "J" in Jew like Jesus! ).