"All Scientists Should Be Militant Atheists"

[AFTT47]

You don't think a non atheist should be allowed to be a scientist? This seems a little unreasonable. The scientist who first presented the idea of the Big Bang was a Catholic priest.

I distinguish a scientific technician from a scientist.   A scientific technician can do great science through expert practice of the craft of science, but while he can be adept at exploiting the ability to science to achieve results, he need not embrace the implications of why science can achieve these results that nonscience can not.  A real scientist ought to embrace the reason why science can achieve what it achieves, and consequently can not but reject not necessarily the existence of God, but necessarily reject instead the acceptance of the proposition that God either exists or that God ought to exist.

No True Scotsman fallacy?

A "real" scientist is a scientist who follows the scientific method when he/she is doing science. What does what they do when they're not doing science have to do with it?