In the 19th century and early 20th century, organized deliberate train crashes were popular in the US as an entertainment spectacle.
The most notable one happened on September 15, 1896, in a Texas town called Crush. After the locomotive-on-locomotive collision occurred the engines’ boilers exploded, almost simultaneously, sending hot, ragged debris flying through the air. The crowd panicked and ran, screaming in drift, badly injured. Two or three people died, one man lost an eye, others lost limbs, were burned, or were otherwise hurt in the melee. Nevertheless, some immediately returned to grab smoking souvenirs to take home as proof of having been to see the Crush crash.
The most notable one happened on September 15, 1896, in a Texas town called Crush. After the locomotive-on-locomotive collision occurred the engines’ boilers exploded, almost simultaneously, sending hot, ragged debris flying through the air. The crowd panicked and ran, screaming in drift, badly injured. Two or three people died, one man lost an eye, others lost limbs, were burned, or were otherwise hurt in the melee. Nevertheless, some immediately returned to grab smoking souvenirs to take home as proof of having been to see the Crush crash.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"