Sentences with phrase «years of religious wars»

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.

Our forefathers were mostly deists who distrusted religion due to the hundreds of years of religious war in Europe before the Revolution.

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When a CNN producer talked to him shortly after the London bombings, he boasted that his son's heroism had marked the advent of a 50 - year religious war and demanded $ 5,000 (5,600 euros) for a televised interview.

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?

I also did not say that America was Isolationist — there was a large isolationist element in society (and the Christians were in that camp) that effectively kept America out of the war for years, but Roosevelt, an internationalist, was able to provide supplies via lend - lease (which the conservatives and religious people of the time opposed).

On the other hand, the Invasion of the East in the 1200s and the crusades and the Hundred years war and so many others were specifically religious, as was the Inquisitions, witch burnings, heresy trials and torture, and so on.

While the SBC and several of its entities nearly folded during the depression years, the denomination experienced its greatest growth after World War II as evangelistic efforts, the postwar religious revival, and the baby boom swelled the membership rolls of most congregations.

Let's point to some of the greatest conflicts in human history: WWI — not religious WWII — not religious American Revolution — not religious French Revolution — not religious 100 Years War — not religious Roman Conquest (s)-- not religious Greek Conquest (s)-- not religious

It represents the culmination of his 15 years of identification with the «religious socialist» movement in Germany, dating back to the time just after World War I when he was called on the carpet by the synodical consistory in Berlin to account for his appearance as a lecturer at a meeting of the Independent Social Democratic Party — a party which, from the synod's standpoint, had added to the injury of being socialist the insult of having been antiwar as well.

So wait you aren't going to blame what was obviously Politics on Religious Wars lets not forget that there were a few things involved in these «Wars of Religion» and I am sure most historians will agree with me, firstly the Crusades weren't thought up as some ideological crusade to protect Christians from some horde of Muslims coming from the east, they were in - fact land grabbing and trying to stave off the eventual fall of what is now known as Istanbul, secondly I highly doubt that most of the average religious person had any idea just how politicized the church became during this time period or up until probably John Paul the II took over, I mean the Thirty Years War could have been called a Religious war under this Videos silly assReligious Wars lets not forget that there were a few things involved in these «Wars of Religion» and I am sure most historians will agree with me, firstly the Crusades weren't thought up as some ideological crusade to protect Christians from some horde of Muslims coming from the east, they were in - fact land grabbing and trying to stave off the eventual fall of what is now known as Istanbul, secondly I highly doubt that most of the average religious person had any idea just how politicized the church became during this time period or up until probably John Paul the II took over, I mean the Thirty Years War could have been called a Religious war under this Videos silly assreligious person had any idea just how politicized the church became during this time period or up until probably John Paul the II took over, I mean the Thirty Years War could have been called a Religious war under this Videos silly assumptioWar could have been called a Religious war under this Videos silly assReligious war under this Videos silly assumptiowar under this Videos silly assumptions.

Guess if you go back reading your history in Europe or in the MidEast you will remember that your ancestors were because of such wars and conflicts driven out or migrated in force measure to overseas for finding the land they were told that they can practice their religious or non religious beliefs and rituals... Since then from different continents for many years made of the few branches many more branches in Black and in White...

But take a look at the carnage in the Thirty Years War, a war between two groups of Christians who were horrified that anyone dared to believe other than the way they did, and tell me with a straight face that the religious zealots who waged that war wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availabiliWar, a war between two groups of Christians who were horrified that anyone dared to believe other than the way they did, and tell me with a straight face that the religious zealots who waged that war wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availabiliwar between two groups of Christians who were horrified that anyone dared to believe other than the way they did, and tell me with a straight face that the religious zealots who waged that war wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availabiliwar wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availability.

The religious opposition to the Vietnam War was certainly more effective than the opposition of those who spelled America with a «k.» And if we have made some significant progress with respect to the place of racial minorities in our society in the last twenty years, it is due mostly to religious leadership.

Please note: Ten years after a U.S. - led war to topple a dictator and establish the rule of law, things are so bad that a U.S. government commission has named Iraq as a particularly worrisome country with respect to religious freedom.

A religious war is just what we need after 12 years of fighting in the sandbox.

The artist adds, «After years of studying cultural, dream, mythological and religious symbols, I am beginning to believe that the most interesting signs are the images that appear and keep pressing on one's mind with no explanation - unexpected images that flash across the brain when phrases like «war by proxy,» «turn to salt» or «separation of church and state» are heard.

Organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, this exhibition is the second stop on a three city tour.More than one hundred pieces, from paintings to sculptures are included in this exhibition of the career and life of the artist Henry O. Tanner (1859 - 1937)- including Tanner's upbringing in Philadelphia in the years after the Civil War, the artist's success as an American expatriate artist at the highest levels of the International art world at the turn of the 20th century; Tanner's role as a leader of an artist's colony in the rural France and his unique contributions in aid of American servicemen to the Red Cross efforts in WWI France and his modernist invigoration of religious painting deeply rooted in his own faith.