Well, I hate to intrude on a good rant, but perhaps it's who you aren't seeing clearly. Religious people have a powerful force for social cohesion as rewards reproductivity.

You, meanwhile, belong to a group that breeds at less than replacement rate. You're dying off.

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2015/04/02/religiously-unaffiliated/

The angle of this story you might be missing, in your determination to make speeches, is that Karen Swallow Prior has no children and now poisons her influence on her religion. She has no influence outside it.

Is that a happy story for her?