When I was in school, I was taught that the Crusades were basically a shining example of how messed up religion was, because all those Catholics just tromped on over to the middle east and brutally murdered everybody and stole their gold. The primary lesson was that religion was stupid and dangerous, and that Saladin (one of the Crusades' leaders) was a Noble guy.
An actual historian puts the Crusades in a nutshell: worth reading.
http://www.crisismagazine.com/april2002/cover.htm
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