text: I immediately caught the tongue-in-cheek tone of this piece and, even as a liberal, actually applauded a little.   Except the part about lack of religious belief (the Christian religion, even) being a drawback.   93 percent of the National Academy of Sciences - the cream of the crop of American scientists - claim to be either atheist or agnostic.    No religious belief is a good thing for this country and the fewer who continue to cling to these divisive ancient ideologies, the better.