Marginalization of Religion

My piece was by Boudreau and it was entitled the Marginalization of Religion.  In it Boudreau discusses how academia, in all of its supposed inclusiveness, has systematically removed any notion of the legitimacy of religion.
Boudreau says that in many respects this attitude permeates academia to the point where religion has become a primitive explanation for things that the human mind simply does not understand. He further discusses how at many Universities around the nation, religion is seen as something a well educated individual will eventually grow out of.
Boudreau says that this understanding of religion has even spread to much of the media, in which he says that religious persecution of majority religions such as Christianity and Islam is the last remaining tolerated form of persecution. "If any alien were to visit from another planet and listened only to media reports about religion, the creature would believe all Muslims are terrorists and all Catholics are pedophiles", says Boudreau.
He believes that this marginalization is not only a radical and intolerable view on religion but that it also runs directly contrary to the goals of education. How, asks Boudreau, can a person appreciate the inspiration of the Renaissance painters, the words of Shakespeare who repeatedly quoted religious scripture without at least a contextual understanding of Christianity. He insists, and I happen to agree, that a student cannot understand these things without first discussion the importance of religion. The supposed "evils of religion" that can be brought up may be true, yes, but that is no reason not to discuss it, nor celebrate the cultural richness that religion provides. Has radical Islam been the inspiration for modern terrorist activities? Yes, but Islam has also inspired beautiful poetry and wonderful music. Did Christianity serve as the precipitating factor for the horrible Crusades and Inquisitions, which cost the lives of hundreds of thousands? Yes, but Christianity also inspired Milton to write Paradise Lost, da Vinci to paint The Last Supper, and Martin Luther King, Jr. speak so eloquently in his "I Have a Dream" speech.