For the record he’s an agnostic atheist, something you have decried as dishonest when others here have stated the same, odd that.
I also found this, and given (Sherlock-Holmes’s) posts were demonstrated to be relentlessly irrational, it seems very apropos, from Chomsky:
"QUESTION: Do you recognize or acknowledge the spiritual life, and is it a factor in who you are?
CHOMSKY: By the spiritual life, do you mean the life of thought and reflection and literature, or the life of religion? It’s a different question.
QUESTION: The spiritual dimension in terms of religion. Is that at all a factor?
CHOMSKY: For me, it’s not. I am a child of the Enlightenment. I think irrational belief is a dangerous phenomenon, and I try to consciously avoid irrational belief. On the other hand, I certainly recognize that it’s a major phenomenon for people in general, and you can understand why it would be. It does, apparently, provide personal sustenance, but also bonds of association and solidarity and a means for expressing elements of one’s personality that are often very valuable elements. To many people it does that. In my view, there’s nothing wrong with that. My view could be wrong, of course, but my position is that we should not succumb to irrational belief."
Maybe he (Sherlock-Holmes) is “in good company” with Chomsky, but not about religion.