[Matt R.]

I went to Catholic school for ~12 years. I've read books on religious subjects occasionally since then. My teachers were, in general, very capable and dug into the historical aspects of Christianity -- The Crusades and all that stuff, for instance. They never sugar-coated anything with the attitude of "Christianity has never done anything wrong". My impression is that you think my schooling was like having crazy evangelicals teach me that everything in the Bible is fact and all other religions are evil. This wasn't the case. Any of my teachers that commented on the evolution issue, for example, were proponents of evolution and thought creationism was psuedo-science. If some believed in creationism I did not know about it because they never mentioned it.

So... my education was not university level and I do not have a doctorate. But I do have several university-level degrees, and I'm fully capable of judging whether the education I received in grade school or high school was crap or not. My religious education was very legitimate, and my religion teachers were, in general, very good and knowledgeable.