You brought up the crusades pal, Not me... If i was gonna bring up some shit it would be about the inquisition, or the dark ages... but guess what, the religions are becoming LESS powerful, not more powerful... So I'm not so worried about a small percent of crazies in a 1 billion populational cross section... this is why our government needs to remain secular... you want to be a protestant? go for it. A catholic? great. Shiite or sunni, jew or shinto, buddhist, mormon, scientologist, rastafarian, pastafarian, or something else, go do it... this just shouldn't be the business of the united states government.... period. these religions will all become classified as mythology eventually anyway, so what does it matter?