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First let me declare myself. I am an uncommitted, non-practicing, occasional agnostic. But I do respect most religions. Except that one about the Great Turtle. Sorry, guys.
Religion has provided both some of the high points, and some of the very worst points in history. Currently, with people strapping bombs to their bodies to kill men, women, and children of their own religion, but differing sects, is indeed at one of the low points.
Teach religion as history. But don't elevate one over the other. Do/did "western textbooks describe the crusades as good? Not mine in the late 50s and early 60s. Perhaps someone educated in a Muslim country can say if their textbooks described the Muslim expansion of that era as beneficial?
It's pretty clear that no one here is going to see the others side. Why keep beating a dead horse?
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