Siege of Jerusalem, 1099

On July 15, 1099, the First Crusade came to a bloody and horrifying end with the fall of Fatamid-held Jerusalem.  The Crusaders stormed the city and proceeded to massacre everyone in the city. Moslems, Jews, and even other Christians  The primary sources record that the blood was ankle deep in the streets.

Religious fervor, or just the feeling that everything you do is justified, can led to horrifying things sometimes.  This is a lesson that works for any era in any part of the world.  Such feelings can blind ordinarily sane people and turn into monsters

Remember this in our insane political climate.  Even in the civilized (?) twenty-first century.

Let's try to avoid a trip backwards into the Dark Ages.  It wasn't a lot of fun and people smelled.

No one wants to go through that again!