Very interesting and important article. My concern is that political pressure has its crosshairs on academia and uses religion as a weapon. As I was reading this, I was imagining the malicious argument "but that's prejudicial against faith." I encounter malicious arguments all the time, and the fact is a lot of funding that goes to academia is passed out by people who are vulnerable to such arguments. My personal solution is to have greater accountability for the negative influence of religion on our whole society, but it's hard to make progress towards that objective.