(December 2, 2011 at 5:01 pm)LarissaAnn Wrote: Oo Alaska, gorgeous! Can you send some snow down our way? lol
Crusades would definitely be a fascinating read, as would the Salem Witch Trials, Mary Tudor, the list literally endless.
If you're dying to read about the crusades you can always start here....
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/raymond-cde.asp
It includes such triumphs of xtian goodness as this, by Raymond d'Aguilers:
Quote:But now that our men had possession of the walls and towers, wonderful sights were to be seen. Some of our men (and this was more merciful) cut off the heads of their enemies; others shot them with arrows, so that they fell from the towers; others tortured them longer by casting them into the flames. Piles of heads, hands, and feet were to be seen in the streets of the city. It was necessary to pick one's way over the bodies of men and horses. But these were small matters compared to what happened at the Temple of Solomon, a place where religious services are ordinarily chanted. What happened there? If I tell the truth, it will exceed your powers of belief. So let it suffice to say this much, at least, that in the Temple and porch of Solomon, men rode in blood up to their knees and bridle reins. Indeed, it was a just and splendid judgment of God that this place should be filled with the blood of the unbelievers, since it had suffered so long from their blasphemies.
Praise jesus, motherfuckers!
