You don't need anyone's permission to do that. For what it's worth, my (perhaps over-cautious) policy is that barring really exceptional cases my edits never remove anything substantive; that way, there's no risk that the edits will make other people's comments look silly.

You say "if you are intolerant of religious views", as if I'd just said that I am. I don't really know what it means to be tolerant or intolerant of a particular view (I think toleration is something one mostly does to people), but I'd say I'm entirely tolerant of religious views. I just happen to disagree with them.