[HayekRocks]

In the U.S. for example, the only non-government major university that was not started by Christian churches is Stanford.

The University of Chicago was founded by John D Rockefeller. Surely you would consider it a major university? It was the site of the first controlled fission reaction, and the home of more Nobel Prize economists than any other institution.

Johns Hopkins seems to be another exception to your claim.

[hellbender]

Johns Hopkins, founder of the eponymous univerity, was a Quaker. Quakers are not atheists, but Christians.