Marine banned from daughter’s school over Islam homework

[Jenny A]

Teaching what each of the combatants in a political or military struggle believed is not becoming a mosque or church.

While I agree that this is useful and often important, I also think that some of the questions on that test go beyond utility to history.

It would be useful to see the chapter the questions were asking about. And yes it's arguable that the unit covers more than necessary. Certainly, the young woman's preliminary answers suggest it has a certain liberal bias.

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The history of religion should include what's done in it's name warts, burnings, torture, lynchings, discrimination, conquest, and all.

I have no problem with that. Trouble is, you'd have to qualify with "humans abusing religion to force their own agenda". "Done in its name" is right.

If it wasn't condoned by the faith, as I know is the case with Christianity, then anything else would be teaching lies.

All that can really be covered as history, is what people said about their religion, what they claimed to believe and what they actually did. Whether they followed the true path is beyond comparative religion or history. It's theology.