Some have found good layout with margins and even an outline frame to be an advantage, perhaps because it suggests legal briefs and the tone of success to the impoverished English teacher, of course subliminally. If the teacher has kinky interests, like Freudian psychology as the mainspring of art, or sexuality everywhere, or homosexuals in art, or the other sex as equals, go with it. It can't do any harm, and you'll probably find a few books in the library which haven't been taken out recently. Capitalize on these, obviously. If this last, drop the course immediately.
Religion is a wonderful area for a quickie .
Your unclear thought comes from the difficulties of dealing with your personal religious background, your early religious training. Most people talk like fools, so you must cultivate to art of writing as you DON'T talk. This is basic. As a replacement for the above, write as you think the professor would like to hear you talk. Great ideas are the sure road to academic failure.