WW2 should get an ethnic tagging to it. That was oversight...i wrote this in a half hour, so excuse my haste. But the Russian/German fighting, which had most of the causualties was politcal and idological. Also i would cite lucy davidowicz's "War against the Jews" to support my contention that it was not "about" religion, since secular Jews were killed along religious ones with the same zeal.
The Revolutionary war was faught between a primarily protestant america and protestant england, and became a proxy war of france and england. Just becase immigration had in part been religiously motivated obsures the issue greatly. Cite contempoary documents which support your thesis, and it may be worth taking a look.
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