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I see, since Christians are so conceited in their beliefs, this makes me stupid?

Interesting concept, but pretty typical.

If I am not a Christian, I must be stupid and of course I will be going to hell, because of course Christianity is right and the thousands of other religions are ALL wrong.

Believe what you like, but I don't even believe in a hell, let alone going to one. And going to heaven, playing a harp and worshiping some almight deity for all eternity does not sound like a lot of fun to me, as a matter of fact, it sounds downright boring. You enjoy it, I think that I'll be doing other things, thank you.

You do not know much about the crusades do you? Some of them were a defense of the "holy Lands", but most were to destroy cultures that disagreed with the tenets of the church and would not allow the church to tell them what to do.

See the Langueduc in France for just such an example. A wonderful culture, very learned, very advanced, every man woman and child killed because the church was afraid their knowledge and of course their ignoring of the churh would hurt the church.

Turkey was a fun place, not because it is Muslim, but because the people that I was freinds with did not try and force their beliefs on me.

The architecture was magnificent and the history was powerful, it practically eminated from the ground, I lived there for 18 months and enjoyed every minute of it, but I imagine since the Turks don't fit in with you worldview and you of course would never change you thoughts to possibly see their culture for what it is, instead looking at it through your Christian colored glasses, then you would not and COULD not enjoy it.

The culture was actually fairly advanced, whether you like to admit it or not, they would not have pounced on and destroyed or taken most of the territories they took during the middle ages if they hadn't been.

The architecture was magnificent and the history was powerful, it practically eminated from the ground,

Problem with the above is that most of the great architecture in Turkey is from before the Turks. I am sure that the hovels were built by Turks but the magnificence of Hagia Sophia is Christian. I saw a good example of Islamic and Christian architecture in Cordoba. There the muslims had built one of the largest mosques in Islam. When the Christians conquered Cordoba they built a Cathedral smack in the middle of it. The Cathedral which is not by far one of the great ones in Christendom is much more impressive that the islamic mosque.