(Thanks to Daniel Star for the pointer.)
UPDATE: A commenter makes a good point:
[T]his passage is mostly unobjectionable. If you read what the passage actually says, it notes that the "official role" of this philosophy is to discredit scientific knowledge and elevate religion. It does not say a thing about the subjective intentions of any of the individual logical positivists, many of whom of course were very much partisans of science in a personal way, and atheists or opponents of religion. That does not change the fundamental problem with logical positivism in regard to either science or religion, which is its enforced agnosticism concerning the objective, independent existence of the external world, which mystifies science by rendering absurd the relation between that world and the progressively expanding body of scientific knowledge, and which leaves a door open for religion.
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