People sense that our reaction to phenomena such as epidemics or religious war is not that different to how we reacted to plagues or to battles a millennia ago.

People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.

We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.

With the religious you can hardly negotiate. They think they have supreme permission to kill people and go to war.

Reckon it's best if you don't have anyone you care about; then it can't hurt you. Don't have to be afraid of losing someone if you no one to lose.

In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads.