“Louis Pasteur was a Catholic.”
So what does that have to do with the analogy?
Bill Maher is an idiot, and his idiocy is not germane to this discussion.
Nothing in particular, I just think it's illustrative.
BTW, you're not an atheist or agnostic, but you should be aware that those who are tend to be far more likely to embrace psuedoscience than people who believe in a mainstream religion, and their likelihood to believe in it increases with level of education. (For religionists, belief in pseudoscience declines as education increases.)