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The Unggoy Religious Civil War was an internal Balaho Protectorate war between the Unggoy Methodists and the rest of the Unggoy Nation. The war began on July 21, 2678 when the Methodists began violently protesting when the Balaho government, the Balaho Senate allowed several other religious groups to expand and build their temples while flatly blocking the requests of the religious leaders of the imported-human religion of Christianity. With the religious leaders of the Methodists preaching violence, the Balaho Senate ordered the military to move in to arrest potential rioters. This move scattered the Methodists into becoming a underground movement, where it continues to fight against the Balaho Senate.

Birth of the Methodists
During and after the Doisac War, the Unggoy served the Loyal Jiralhanae of Doisac as merchants and trades-men, a role ill-suited for the Jiralhanae species but a profession that was highly regarded in the Unggoy society. With the constant trade with the Humans and Sangheili, ideas and fads would be imprinted upon the eager minds of Unggoy traders - ideas and fads that would be passed onto the rest of society when the merchants returned home. Many of the ideas that came across were religion and military standards and from this came the Unggoy Methodists or the Methodist Church of Human-Unggoy Enlightenment and Enrichment.

Unlike many of the other converted religions, the Methodists praised the mythological human called Jesus Christ as well as trying to convert the mass population of the Unggoy which was against the laws of the Balaho Protectorate. Numerous members of the Methodist church were arrested for inciting unrest during unlawful preaching, giving them an unwanted platform of attention in the Senate's and public eye.

Beginnings of a Civil War
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