Sentences with phrase «result of religious wars»

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?

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Wars by U.S. forces or by proxies — resulting in the death of 50,000 Iraqi civilians, 2 million Vietnamese, 200,000 Guatemalan peasants — don't make a dent in our self - image as long as we make «religious violence» the bogeyman.

Although held in theory over a long period, the belief was accentuated during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since, and became finally a basic dogma underlying the Japanese Imperial thrust, which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United States.

One can draw on the result of the careful work that has been done by religious bodies, educational institutions, and local communities regarding better understanding between the Islamic faith and societies since the Gulf War in 1991.

The separation of church and state resulted from the European experience with the so - called «religious wars.»