Well, Ryan, your first point would have merit if I was arguing that Christianity shouldn't be taught (of course it should, though not as a sanctified subject). My point entirely was different: approaching all learning with that colored lens is self-defeating. Would one expect true learning in an orthodox madrasah? A communist-funded university?
You supplied the "simply:" I have many more thoughts about Christianity (isn't it interesting that there are so many different religions huddled within that vast cloak?) but the space here is limited. Frankly, I found Christianity unsatisfactory, intellectually, when it specified that god was a "He" and created "man" in "His image and likeness." Exactly what was this god doing with his sexual organs? The rest of Genesis, of course, is all twaddle and was taught as THE truth until incontrovertible evidence arrived through the vehicle of science--- suddenly, the argument became that the Old Testament was metaphorical. Righto!