Yes, these are great examples of the sort of good & useful conversations that are not going to happen when you frame all religious impulses as inherently valueless or destructive.
Religious impulses get measured on a different metric than the dry, purely scientific and logical basis that Climate Change is supposedly formed from. If it really is a religious impulse, then we have to completely re-evaluate the constructiveness and worth of the idea (that is, if its acolytes will let us).