Sentences with phrase «of a religious war»

At Westphalia in 1648, thirty years of religious wars were brought to an end by giving to rulers the right to establish, within their realms, whatever pattern of institutional religion they desired.

And the point is — when Muslim apologists like you want to show that «Christians are just as bad» — they always cite the Crusades or maybe the 30 years war as the last example of a religious war.

How about the roughly 3 billion people who have died as a direct result of religious wars, sacrifices and persecutions over the last 10,000 years?

Christianism led Western Europe to the catastrophe of the religious wars.

Abel was the first casualty of a religious war too... where God made efforts to keep the peace but Cain unfortunately did the deed.

It remains to be seen, however, whether this foundational modern principle can be challenged without a reversion to the mayhem of religious war.

I remember the morning of 9 - 11 and what happened to the 3000 people who would have scoffed at the idea of a religious war just moments before they were barbecued alive.

It has kept America free of religious wars, persecution and established intolerance.

Jonathan Swift was an Irish clergyman, and so he almost certainly had some sort of religious war in view...

However, the visual depiction of a knight, in conjunction with the moniker Crusader, inevitably ties us directly to the reality of the religious wars and the violence of the Crusades.

How many human beings have become the victims of religious wars, how frequent the oppression of other religious consciences, how numerous are the martyrdoms suffered in courageous confession of individual faith!

Blake eventually finds himself in the middle of a religious war, where crazy doesn't even begin to explain those involved with it.