I think the lab coat example is useful, but I’ll assert that there’s no good reason to shed rationality along with the white coat.
Also, theism, and religion in general, is only a subset of the overall category of irrational beliefs that afflict global culture. Perhaps generalizing to that wider set would defuse the defensiveness of theists and move toward solving the fundamental problem of fiction based belief systems and the tribalism that reinforces people’s identification with them.
nice article, one typo: It must be acknowledged that many atheists were religious at some point in there (their) lives.