I recall a story in an old book
about an exodus of a wandering group of people destroying a city with trumpets so they could move in. They were promised!
The area is layer upon layer of destroyed civilizations. There's a new layer of rubble now. Buried bodies. A story as old as humanity.
And it is not good, in any way. Theocracies always suck. Not the people, generally, but the fanatics who insist everyone be like them or die.
"We'll keep killing them until they stop hating us." An actual quote I heard on the television 40 years ago from a resident of the area. Does it matter which side they were on?