As far as I can see religion is putting people more and more away from God. With passing time there are more and more religions with conflicting impressions of God and how to serve him. People that claim to speak with Jesus never get the one message of which Christian denomination is right (if any).
So it seems that science is bringing us closer to God by giving unanimous evidence that there is none.
So it seems that science is bringing us closer to God by giving unanimous evidence that there is none.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
