Dreyfus, Along with every other secular "scholar" selectivly reads history...To them this is always the way history is interpreted...
Religion (which they lump all of them together) is bad and evil...it caused war, superstition and darkness. Religion kept humanity form progress...The enlightenment with its total secularist outlook brought the world science, realism and progress...
The real truth is that starting with the age of revolution until now, wars waged by secular nations (both democratic and totalitarian) have killed more people (French Revolution, American Civil War, WWI, WWII, Chinenese Communist Revolution, Russian Revolution, Civil War in Sri Lanka, The Killing Fields, Abortion, etc...) than the religious wars did in the past two thousand years...
As far as science and progress well Great religious minds like Miamonades, Issac Newton, and Galileo are proof enough that man is able to be both religious and scientific...