On the contrary, I would say that one of the problems with religion is that it has no clear way to measure the 'spirit, soul and faith' relative to what is possible in publicly known science at this point.  'Science' can pick a face out of the human mind...sort of.  The religious flocks are VERY prone to follow leaders like Hagee, Robertson, Baker.  (Not to pick on Christians, but it is the culture I know the most about.)

If you think about it, what we pretty much know about the state of technology today, and what the technocrats are promising (with a good deal of hype) in the future with their AI and their 'singularity' and what-not is on par with what at least the Abrahamic religions consider to be true.  That is, and all-seeing entity who you cannot hide from, which will judge a person based on their past actions, and an infinite after-life.

As a 'pure Atheist' (and a systems analyst) I'm currently at least playing with the idea, if not favoring it, that it would make sense to employ the modern 'god-lite' technologies on anyone who wishes to be in an elected leadership position.  Probably voluntarily would work fine.  Basically, if someone wanted to run for a political office, they could take a sophisticated test to find out such things as whether they are more loyal to a greater Israel than they are to the constitution of the United States.  If they don't want to take the test, fine, but they would be at a disadvantage to those who would willingly do so.