Stenger's first point is self-evident. When it comes to the physical world, science works. Religion doesn't. It's that simple. You can't pray a plane into the air, or the World Trade Center into the ground. You can't pray away someone else's disease, either. But religions throughout the world claim that you can  and collect tithings on such grounds. By any standard but religion, that's fraud. But for religion, it's SOP.