If you can't take a course with an open mind, then you don't need to be in it.

"Take Kant for instance, he believed God didn't exist because you couldn't prove he existed." If you can prove to me, conclusively, that God exists, then you have a point. Otherwise, Kant is correct in his assumption: Religion is based on faith and faith alone, trying to interject reason into it always ends in failure.

"Then there was Socrates, who killed himself. Why do we hold these people on such high regard?" Socrates killed himself because he had to according to the laws of the time.

What do we hold these people in such high regard? You state that the conclusions drawn from the Enlightenment are just common sense to you. Could you consider that what was stated or learned in the Enlightenment has just been passed down to you over time in such a way that you did not realize what was being done?

No one has told you people did not think before for themselves prior to the enlightenment. What you believe is divine law may be that to you, but not to the man next to you.

Then you asked how we came up with the ten commandments - This is where a lack of knowledge kicks your buttocks. If by chance you think that the ten commandments were the first laws on earth, then you have problems. As a matter of fact, the so called ten commandments that you probably believe in are mentioned three times in the first five books of the Bible. Two of the mentions are basically the same, the third one is radically different. If you will read the book of Exodus from the very beginning up to and through Exodus 20, you will see the ten commandments in the form which you are used to. But Moses broke those tables and had to go back on the mountain to get another set. Read now from Exodus 20 to and through Exodus 34 and tell me if the myth you have been told about the ten commandments has any credibility.

your problem is that you are trying to study an objective field from a subjective standpoint (I know there is a God). I would suggest that you drop the class if it confuses you and major in Accounting where every thing you hold, generally belonging to someone else, is green and has "in God we trust" on it.