Language wars exist because of how human social behaviour works ("othering", tribalism, etc). The funny thing about that is that the more similar two languages/ideologies/religions/etc are, the stronger will their adherents likely feel about the distinction. Especially with "forks" (e.g. look at how much the various Muslim sects hate each other in the Middle East).

Just be glad no programming language has tried to recruit users with promises of a pleasurable afterlife yet. The "wars" between the various programming language communities may be bad enough as it is, but at least they're not blowing each other up yet.