>It’s continually amusing to me that some of the most outwardly “anti-religious” people (I’m reminded of this Silicon Valley scene [1]) adopt belief systems and

>It’s continually amusing to me that some of the most outwardly “anti-religious” people (I’m reminded of this Silicon Valley scene [1]) adopt belief systems and act in ways that are nearly indistinguishable from American Protestantism, This is an empty statement. You accuse him of somehow behaving similar to "protestants" with zero further description of why or how this is true. Lot's of disparate intellectual movements share many ideas, it doesn't make them any better or worse or have any bearing on their value at all.