My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.
When I do watch shows, or projects that I've been a part of, I'm pretty good at watching them objectively. And that's mostly because I want to see how it came out overall, what the overall story was and how it came together visually, what my mates were doing.
All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History.

