Calling this religious persecution is a joke and shows just how desperate Drich is to have persecution against Christians. This isn't intolerance of religion. This is intolerance of religion's cavalier attitude towards special treatment.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell