scipsy:

@firmfoundations: …For me if you are a scientist, and you are religious, but your religious beliefs don’t affect the way you work, you are totally fine. 

Lawrence Krauss said this better than me:

As a scientist, I feel that my role is to object when religious belief causes people to teach lies about the world. In this regard, I would argue that one should respect religious sensibilities no more or less than any other metaphysical inclinations, but in particular they should not be respected when they are wrong. […] What we need to try to eradicate is not religious belief, or faith, it is ignorance. Only when faith is threatened by knowledge does it become the enemy.