untold numbers perish in Noah's Flood
unknown numbers die in Israelite invasions of Canaan
1000 Philistines killed singlehandedly by Samson
960 resistance fighters at Masada 73 CE, die by suicide rather than surrender
1 million+ Crusader lives lost over two centuries
2000+ victims of the Spanish Inquisition
2-5000 Anabaptist martyrs in the 16th and 17th century
4 million native North American deaths due to European colonization
15-22 million deaths in World War I
18-50 million victims of flu epidemic of 1918-20
6 million lives lost in the Holocaust
50 million+ casualties of World War II
150-246 thousand deaths from Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings
3 million estimated casualties of the Korean War
1.5 million+ lives lost in Vietnam War
millions are needlessly dying today due to war, famine and disease
O number of people killed by Christians in the first three centuries
The Lord will mediate between nations
and will settle international disputes.
They will hammer their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will no longer fight against nation,
nor train for war anymore.
Isaiah 2:4 (New Living translation)
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