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To summarize briefly, we know that no religious belief is true, because we know that all religious beliefs are either nonfalsifiable or falsified. In the interests of scientific integrity, we have an obligation to declare that knowledge.
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That's seems like a pretty good summary. This is somewhat of a hot topic in certain circles, with many including Stephen J Gould thinking that science and religion are "non-overlapping magisteria" so science should stay away from it. I'm somewhere in the middle on the issue, but this is the domain of cultural anthropology, so it isn't my field. It does seem true that anthropology as a whole and religion are often in competition to explain the same things, and the paper does a good job with that topic.