I rather agree. If religion here is largely a blind, a thing clung to out of desperation, then it seems to me that a single, secular state is an even more reasonable option. If religious freedom is made a tenet of the state, then (perhaps I am optimistic here but) it seems to me that this pulls the teeth out of the religion argument.

Though I will say that it saddens me a great deal-- to see two angry and militant people using their religions as, essentially, meat shields. To coin a gamer phrase.