Religious wars & Peace on earth and goodwill toward all

Here are a few references concerning peace and religions……

Jewish–Roman wars – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://bit.ly/9iY385

Muslim conquests – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://bit.ly/cZggBo

Saxon Wars – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://bit.ly/aUZtY7

Religious war – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://bit.ly/cAM682

Reformation: Religious Wars http://bit.ly/95Ho75

On the issue of beheading the historian Ramsay MacMullen notes that in 681 a council of bishops at Toledo called on civil authorities to seize and behead all those guilty of non-Christian practices of whatever sort.[1] These massacres were common on both sides throughout the Christianization of Europe, with similar events involving pagan Saxons, Germans and Celts and Christians documented in Britain and Ireland. http://bit.ly/9GywOl

European wars of religion – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://bit.ly/906ywZ

religious wars – Google Search http://bit.ly/9MR82u

Wars of Religion http://bit.ly/dmGjdK

Lecture 6: Europe in the Age of Religious Wars, 1560-1715 http://bit.ly/ceZhFN

Second Sudanese Civil War – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://bit.ly/9A5sQD

Religiously based civil unrest and warfare http://bit.ly/dmxg2h

Inquisition – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://bit.ly/aTPst8

(In 1 Samuel 15:3, the Lord orders a mass slaughter of the Amalekite tribe: “Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child.” These days, that would earn God an indictment before the International Criminal Court.)  http://nyti.ms/bxV1j5