“For centuries”, the camerlengo said, “the church has stood by while science picked away at religion bit by bit. Debunking miracles. Training the mind to overcome the heart. Condemning religion as the opiate of the masses. They denounce God as a hallucination-- a delusional crutch too those too weak to accept that life is meaningless. I could not stand by while science presumed to harness the power of god himself! Proof, you say? Yes, proof of science’s ignorance! What is wrong with the admission that something exists beyond our understanding? The day science substantiates God in a lab is the day people stop needing faith!”
--Quoted from “Angels and Demons” Copyright 2003 Dan Brown
--- I think this defines the struggle between Science and Faith (not religion, that can be tossed) "Religion" is superficial, at the core of it is faith, in a being, many beings, what ever.....Religion has gotten too commanding.....one doesn't becessarily need to belong to a particular faith to have a.....spirituality.....
--More thoughts later...