The first interesting thing is that it spurred me to look in the dictionary to check the exact meaning of the word "drivel" and, check, this article does fit that definition.
The second is that it was based on a Washington Post article and that article is quite interesting:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/non-believers-say-their-prayers-to-no-one/2013/06/24/b7c8cf50-d915-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_story.html
The WAPO article is very thoughtful and thought provoking and is about the ways in which spirituality can be enriching, fulfilling, and beneficial to a person without any belief in a god or the supernatural. Which, to me, suggests that religions in general could be better understood, more accurately understood, by thinking of their belief in a god or the supernatural as incidental and unnecessary. So that Catholicism for example would work just as well for many people, perhaps even better, if it was thought of as merely a construct that is helpful and enriching rather than a claim of revelation of truths without any clear foundation.
The Huff Post article, on the other hand, is just a long stream of sloppy conflation manipulated to conclude things that haven't really been shown. Meh.
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