Haven't read the article, and don't know how this relates, but it triggered a memory of something NN Taleb has said before: Western Atheism can in many ways be

Haven't read the article, and don't know how this relates, but it triggered a memory of something NN Taleb has said before: Western Atheism can in many ways be considered an offshoot of Protestantism. Basically that in the same way that the reformation stripped away a bunch of the pomp and circumstance from Catholicism, Atheism was just a further step along that path, while retaining the underpinnings of the Christian world-view. Don't really remember enough about it to go more in depth than that, but thought it was interesting.